What Are the Coxs Exerting Themselves After?
People's Daily 14/06/1999What is Cold War mentality? The "Cox Report" serves as the finest teaching material by negative example.
A hodgepodge of six months' painstaking work by a special committee formed of a pack of congressmen headed by Cox at the US House of Representatives, the "Cox Report" is outstanding for some of its specific aspects as follows:
First, it makes false sensational statements, saying frightening things just to excite people to listen. It shows the great adeptness of a few American politicians like the Coxs good at slinging mud on China that China has long "stolen" nuclear and other sophisticated US defense technologies and with improved nuclear weaponry it has posed grave threat to the national security of the US.
Second, it represents the great audacity of the Coxs following their audacious inferential logic. The "Cox Report" makes such a blatant audacious assumption that China has committed "theft of nuclear secrets" from the US for the US has made a success of their nuclear weaponry after having had over one thousand tests carried out. In contrast, China did only a few dozen. According to the Coxs, how could China otherwise have nuclear weapons of its own to be developed at a high level if it had not committed "theft of nuclear secrets" from the US? A further inference is: 80,000 visiting scholars from China to the US, over 100,000 students who have been sent to study in the US and over 3,000 Chinese companies on a business tie with those American must have been on an "espionage" mission for "nuclear secrets" of the US.
Three, it is as like as chalk and cheese, appearing what it really is not. It is a lengthy report in the truest sense, run to as many as 872 pages. But it gives people not a bit of convincing fact or evidence to prove its charge against China's "theft of US nuclear secrets". "Possible", "possibility", "may", "possibly some day", "presumably", "might" and the like verbiage run through the whole of the "Report" of the Coxs. First given an "unwarranted" charge, a "verdict not guilty", whether it is true or not is not important, what matters is to discredit the adversary, is the customary trick practiced by all US politicians of notoriety like the Coxs.
Four, trying to pass off fish eyes for pearls - pass off the sham as the genuine. It is true spread throughout the whole of "Cox Report" is a long list of nuclear "secrets". But these are just "secrets" that can be found or obtained by any one either on the Internet or other open and legal channels, if he likes, as many Chinese and foreign scientists including those in the US say.
China's "threat" seems to have put the whole of the US in complete peril and under attacks from all round, namely, there is no security to speak of for the US, according to the Coxs. This is as has been trumpeted by many US media with various possible whimsical colors and exaggerations applied to the "Cox Report". But a fact not to be denied is that the US is a hegemonic power, as it has styled itself, with several thousand strong of nuclear weaponry armed to the teeth, a super power that has long and always been ready to "punish" others with their sophisticated weaponry. In contrast, China possesses, the US has alleged, merely 20 strong of nuclear weaponry developed, as a developing country that has already publicly and solemnly declared that it will never be the first to use its nuclear weapons against others. Where does the threat and might of the latter come from to the former?
The Coxs are good as they are at fabricating sensational lies to have truly cut a ridiculous figure in the eyes of the American people. In the eyes of Lardy from US Brookings Institution, what the Coxs painstakingly fabricated in their "Report" is "complete nonsense". US readers give their view on the "Cox Report" on New York Times as one of "resuscitation of Mccarthyism" on the part of the Coxs casting a doubtful eye on nearly every American Chinese. "Chinese scientists have the wisdom to develop nuclear weaponry of their own. An intelligent group of people, they have the power and ability. They have been well educated. It holds no water for the "Cox Report" to say China commits 'theft of nuclear secrets'. 'Secrets' listed in 'Cox Report' are no secrets but things that have already been made known, scores of years ago", these are righteous words voiced by many famous US scientists and nuclear technologists. According to CIA and US Energy officials, "secrets" listed by the Coxs in their "Report" can in no way be proved.
Then why do the Coxs want to fabricate things out of nothing? Many American friends say it is because of bipartisan struggles in the US. After failure to play up Clinton's sex scandal, and following producing of the "Cox Report" about China's "espionage" on US "nuclear secrets", the Republicans make it their objective to win over their opponents in the perspective presidential election of the US. An example in case is that as soon as the "Cox Report" came out Security Advisor Sandy Berger and Attorney General Janet Reno as two important assistants to Clinton Administration were demanded to resign their posts by the Republicans.
News sources from the US show that "Cox Report" had originally been planned to be put out by the end of March, a date before Chinese Premier Zhu Yongji went on a visit to the US. "Cox Report" would by its publicizing have its aim to prevent an improvement of Sino-US relations. But the Coxs had their "Report" out on May 25, a date that found US-led NATO missile attacked the Chinese Embassy in the capital of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Belgrade, that had aroused strong protests and indignation among the Chinese people. Soon after they dished up their "Report", amid an anti-China chorus by US media, the Coxs did achieve their purpose in diverting people's attention and covering up the crime of US-led NATO's missile attack on the Chinese Embassy and their barbaric bombing of the Yugoslav people on the Balkans. Hard facts tell people that the Coxs in the US will stop at nothing when they are motivated by a certain ulterior motive.
It goes without saying what the Coxs drive at with their "Report" is to target China. In the words of Cox-type congressmen in the House of Representatives in the US, "We hope an end to communism on the mainland of China." This is to say when China should not give up its socialism and do not follow the baton of the US China will always be a direct threat to the US and China will always be a country the US will not stomach. Otherwise no smooth going should never be had by China and various difficulties and destruction should be created for it, according to the Coxs of the US following their Cold War mentality. But history will call the Coxs to their senses that China can in no way and will not be put a stop to in its forward match.
Opinion 1999-06-14 Page4
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