[PEN-L:6599] Re: Re: Re: china vs. nato

["Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Your Russian wife ought to know.

"J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." wrote:

> Henry,
>      My Russian wife believes that it was an
> intelligence coup by the Yugoslavs, that they
> have an agent in the CIA who fed the error to
> the mapmakers to get the Chinese angry at
> the US (which obviously has happened).
>       Actually I think that is more likely than
> the idea that there is a secret anti-Chinese group
> that consciously did it to just out to stir things up
> or that the administration did it to "punish China"
> for nuclear spying.  This is clearly a major embarrassment.
>        It still looks like the leading candidate is just
> plain incompetence.  After all, there have been what,
> 7000+ bombing sorties by now?  (or is it 15,000?)
> I don't think that they are being all that careful to double check
> the coordinates on all of those, despite the reported "layers
> of review."  The whole bombing campaign stinks and
> everybody knows that there is going to be "collateral
> damage," a euphemism for something that is unacceptable.
> But how to save the perpetrators' faces so that they stop?
> Barkley Rosser
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henry C.K. Liu <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Monday, May 10, 1999 11:18 AM
> Subject: [PEN-L:6579] Re: china vs. nato
>
> >It may not be that simple.  I suggest that just like Watergate, or the
> >Zimmermann telegram over Mexico, the origin of the "mistake" was very
> >complex, having to do with forces within the US government wanting to
> >torpedo Clinton's China policy.  It is credible that the White
> >House/National Security Council/State Department/Pentagon were all
> >officially "innocent" albeit incompetent. But the whole affair smelled
> >like domestic political terrorism at work, using China as a conduit,
> >aiming at several birds with one stone: US/China relations, stalling peace
> >processes in Kosovo until after the next US election, pushing China/Russia
> >alliance to reinforce the need for NATO, etc., etc.
> >And it has succeeded spectacularly.
> >The global geo-political landscape is as much in ruins as the town is
> >Kosovo.
> >
> >Henry C.K. Liu
> >
> >Michael Perelman wrote:
> >
> >> It seems that China is angry because the highly touted CIA cannot read
> >> street maps, which clearly show the Chinese embassy, while the US is
> >> angry because China has been able to discover top secret information.
> >> Does anybody else find this imbalance curious?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Michael Perelman
> >> Economics Department
> >> California State University
> >> Chico, CA 95929
> >>
> >> Tel. 530-898-5321
> >> E-Mail michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >