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The evening television news on July 16 captured a dramatic and historic moment that has ominous implications for America: Presidents Jiang Zemin of China and Vladimir Putin of Russia hugging each other. The Kremlin bear hug marked the signing of a treaty of "friendship and cooperation." It commits the two giants to jointly oppose U.S. policies to build an anti-missile defense system, to defend Taiwan, and to expand the purpose and influence of NATO.

In a joint statement, the two dictators said they are hoping for a new world order. One Russian commentator in Moscow described the treaty as "an act of friendship against America."

The treaty requires Moscow and Beijing to coordinate their response closely if either is subjected to pressure or aggression from another power.

The language of the treaty makes clear that it is designed to proclaim to the world that Russia will resist both NATO's activity in Europe and America's defense of Taiwan.

Putin forcefully stated Russia's opposition to NATO expansion. He said it will prolong the Cold War. "When NATO enlarges, division doesn't disappear, it simply moves toward our borders."

The treaty includes strong language demanding the maintenance of the 1972 ABM Treaty "in its current form." In fact, the treaty is no longer operative because the country we signed it with, the Soviet Union, no longer exists.

Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Thomas H. Moorer (U.S.N. Ret.) recently warned us about Communist China's war plans. "They've stated flatly the U.S. is their No. 1 enemy," he said, and we have to learn the lesson that we can't pacify aggressors with weakness.

"They are right in the Caribbean with an operation," Admiral Moorer added, refer-ring to the fact that a Chinese-controlled firm now controls both ends of the Panama Canal.
(NewsMax.com, 4-23-01)

For several years, Adm. Moorer has been warning that it is highly dangerous to U.S. national security to allow Communist China to establish a beachhead in the Western Hemisphere by controlling the Panama Canal. He told the U.S. Senate, "We are on what I consider to be a collision course with disaster in the very near future. . . . I truly can't remember a time when I have been more concerned about the security of the country."
(Testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 6-16-98)

Moorer was a Navy pilot during World War II and served as JCS chairman during the Vietnam War.

The Monroe Doctrine enunciated the U.S. policy that it is "dangerous to our peace and safety" for any foreign power to extend its system to the Western Hemisphere. In 1962, we worried about Communist Russia's nuclear missiles deployed to Castro's Cuba. Now we face the possibility that Communist China may put its nuclear missiles in Panama for a blackmail threat about Taiwan.

In the meantime, it appears that China is using Panama to smuggle Asian migrants, primarily Chinese, to the United States. The human smuggling routes go through Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Panama. After landing, the Asians are taken by land to the Costa Rico border, then through Mexico, where they cross into the United States. (China Reform Monitor 381, 5-7-01)