If you would help him anyway, then you would probably support Permanent Normalized Trade Relations (PNTR) with Communist China.  

This past year the nation was shocked to discover through the Cox Report the extent to which Chinese espionage had penetrated our nuclear weapons labs.   

Agents of the People’s Liberation Army, the PLA,  had actively engaged in the re-election efforts of President Clinton, in an attempt to leave the barn door open to U.S. nuclear secrets.  

They have been successful in that attempt.  Since the Cox Report was published, the CIA and FBI report that Communist China's espionage activities have increased and are manipulating U.S. public policy.    

Only instead of just corrupting the Administration, those agents have now penetrated our major business, trade, and farm organizations, and are carefully undermining all serious examination of our economic and security relationships with Red China.  

Their success now means that anyone who speaks out against PNTR for China is instantly labeled a protectionist by leaders of both political parties, along with the nation’s major trade organizations.   But the truth must be heard, for the very survival of America as a free nation depends on it.   

Here’s what the CIA, the FBI, and the Pentagon now report as to China’s long-term intentions.  In 1999, Communist China's Defense Minister declared that war with the United States "is inevitable."    The PLA has stolen U.S. advanced military and nuclear weapons technology, and has acquired U.S. military tactics.  It is modernizing its military, producing long range ballistic missiles, and developing a military space program.  It is developing nuclear missiles for counterforce - attacking U.S. forces first.   

The PLA is acquiring modern jet fighters, AWACS, and aerial refueling capabilities, enabling it to project power and threaten U.S. forces.  The PLA is building a blue water navy with cruise missile-carrying destroyers, and modern submarines.   

Communist China's intermediate range ballistic missiles were built to target U.S. bases in Guam.  The CIA estimates that 13 of Communist China's 19+ long range ballistic missiles are targeted at American cities.  And they will use them.   

In 1995 and 1996 the PLA launched ballistic missiles off the coast of Taiwan as a demonstration of force.  In 1995 China threatened to destroy Los Angeles if the U.S. defended Taiwan.  And they mean it.    

In 1974 Communist China forcibly took the Paracel Islands from Vietnam.  In 1995 Communist China forcibly took Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands from the Philippines, and fortified it as a military base reminiscent of Japan's pre-World War II fortifications.  In 1993 Communist China began claiming the Natuna Island oil and gas fields that belong to Indonesia.   

On March 18, 2000, Taiwan held elections for president.  Taiwan's democratic election is a torch of freedom in the Far East.  It deserves our admiration.  It is a welcome contrast to the brutal regime of Communist China. 

In February, Communist China issued a report saying it would consider using force against Taiwan.  The Chinese Premier said they were willing to "shed blood" to prevent Taiwan from declaring independence, and warned Taiwan from an "impulsive" vote because, "Otherwise," their premier said, "I'm afraid you won't get another opportunity to regret."   

These threats by Communist China to impose its will upon the free people of Taiwan are an offense to freedom worldwide.  PNTR is no longer appropriate, if it ever was. 

Hopes that trade with Communist China will make it become a peaceful democracy are misplaced.  Trading advanced technology is simply providing them the gun to kill us.  

Normal trade relations are a result of peaceful relations.  They are not the result of preparations for war.  Normal trade relations with a country planning to go to war with the United States is not trade- it is appeasement.   And history shows where appeasement leads.  

The influx of Red Chinese cash into our political and economic system has placed greed over freedom as a matter of public policy.   

We see the Chinese goods the PLA is exporting to this country to finance their war machine.  But they are exporting far more than goods – they are selling a lie to our leaders and people -  that gold is worth more that freedom or decency.  That feeding the Christians to the lions in the Roman coliseum would be just fine as long as McDonald’s held the lease on concessions.   

But more and more members of Congress from both parties are no longer buying those goods.   When PNTR is brought before the House next month,  there is a real chance that it will be rejected – as it should be.      

A vote for trade with a regime that intends to attack this country and our allies with nuclear weapons paid for with American dollars is not a trade agreement – it is a suicide pact.