The nuclear arms race between India and Pakistan stems from technology transfers to China authorized by Bill Clinton.
"U.S. military intelligence discovered in 1993 that China had sold missile technology to Pakistan," reports Phyllis Schlafly of Eagle Forum. "Because of bipartisan Congressional demands, President Clinton barred the U.S. space industry from using Chinese rockets to launch their satellites." That ban appears to have been the basis for a fiendish fundraising effort, as evidenced in the following chronology.
"In June 1994," Mrs. Schlafly relates, "the CEO of Loral Space and Communications, Bernard Schwartz, made a $100,000 contribution to the Democratic National Committee. He then joined a Ron Brown trip to China that led to a $250 million telecommunications deal for Loral's satellites to be launched by Chinese rockets. In October 1994, Clinton lifted the sanctions he had imposed on China for selling missile technology to Pakistan."
Schwartz continued to make substantial donations to the Democratic party, as did Chinese intermediary Johnny Chung, and the Clinton Administration continued to grant export-restriction waivers. "On February 6, 1996, despite reports that China continued to export nuclear technology to Pakistan and missiles to Iran, and over the objections of our State and Defense Departments, Clinton signed waivers for four U.S. satellites to be launched by Chinese rockets," Schlafly observes. "In March 1996, despite the objections of Secretary of State Warren Christopher, the Defense Department, and our intelligence agencies, Clinton personally transferred jurisdiction over satellite-export licensing from the State Department to his pal, Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. Meanwhile, Bernard Schwartz stepped up his contributions to the Democratic Party and became the largest single contributor in the 1996 election cycle."
Schlafly identifies the prescribed penalty for a President's reckless disregard of national security. "The fact that Clinton personally issued the waivers to allow shipments of U.S. technology that greatly improved the accuracy and reliability of Communist China's missiles is grounds for impeachment," she asserts, "regardless of whether or not there was any quid pro quo for those decisions. U.S. space technology was just what China needs to make intercontinental ballistic missiles and point them more accurately at U.S. cities," Schlafly emphasizes. "And he did it despite the objections of the U.S. State Department, Defense Department, Justice Department, and intelligence agencies."
Bill Clinton is reputed to be increasingly concerned about the legacy he will leave behind. It's likely to be an ugly one, at least as recorded by American historians. His place in the history of China, however, may turn out to be quite glorious. There he may be remembered as the Great American Sinophile, who sacrificed the sovereignty and security of his own country in order to ensure the ascendancy of China in the 21st Century. What we take for folly and duplicity in the West may be seen in more appealing hues in the East. Clinton's recent visit to the Orient may turn out to have been a farsighted scouting expedition, a tax-payer-subsidized search for a resplendent retirement home far from the din of impeachment proceedings.
