The involvement of the Clinton administration in the sale of defense contractor Magnequench to Chinese interests and the subsequent closure of Magnequench's manufacturing plant in Valparaiso (davidsirota) (PLS) has reached the fringes of the MSM. Hillary, of course continues to attempt to pin the fault on the Bush administration.
But the fact of the matter is that the Clintons’ financial relationship with China from the 1990’s to the present is murky at best if not down right suspicious. Were a serious investigation to come to light, I would suspect Hillary would be kept talking out of both sides of her mouth at the same time from now until the cows came home.
Here are a few of the multitude of articles a simple Google search turns up from most recent working backwards:
Two articles about unlikely donations to Hillary from poor Chinese neighborhoods in New York and San Francisco
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LA Times 3-19-07
All three locations, along with scores of others scattered throughout some of the poorest Chinese neighborhoods in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx, have been swept by an extraordinary impulse to shower money on one particular presidential candidate -- Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Dishwashers, waiters and others whose jobs and dilapidated home addresses seem to make them unpromising targets for political fundraisers are pouring $1,000 and $2,000 contributions into Clinton's campaign treasury. In April, a single fundraiser in an area long known for its gritty urban poverty yielded a whopping $380,000. When Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) ran for president in 2004, he received $24,000 from Chinatown.
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DALY CITY, Calif. -- One of the biggest sources of political donations to Hillary Rodham Clinton is a tiny, lime-green bungalow that lies under the flight path from San Francisco International Airport.
Six members of the Paw family, each listing the house at 41 Shelbourne Ave. as their residence, have donated a combined $45,000 to the Democratic senator from New York since 2005, for her presidential campaign, her Senate re-election last year and her political action committee. In all, the six Paws have donated a total of $200,000 to Democratic candidates since 2005, election records show
Two articles about the undisclosed donations to the William J. Clinton Foundation from foreign interests including the Chinese firm involved in the Chinese censorhip of the internet.
http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/...
Chicago Tribune 04-08
But her recent stern comments on China's internal crackdown collide with former President Bill Clinton's fundraising relationship with a Chinese Internet company accused of collaborating with the mainland government's censorship of the Web. Last month, the firm, Alibaba Inc., carried a government-issued "most wanted" posting on its Yahoo China homepage, urging viewers to provide information on Tibetan activists suspected of stirring recent riots.
And further on
The former president's charity has raised more than $500 million over the last decade and has been lauded for its roles in disaster response, AIDS prevention and Third World medical and poverty relief. But his reliance on influential foreign donors and his foundation's refusal to release its list of donors have led to repeated questions about the sources and transparency of his fundraising -- even as Hillary Clinton has talked on the campaign trail about relying on him as a roving international ambassador if she is elected president.
http://online.wsj.com/...
Bill Clinton established that body in 1997 while still President. It has since raised half-a-billion dollars, which has been spent on Mr. Clinton's presidential library in Arkansas and global philanthropic initiatives. The mystery remains its donors, and whether these contributors might one day seek to call in their chits with a President Hillary Clinton.
and further on
Presidential candidates also aren't allowed to accept campaign checks from foreigners, but, again, no such restrictions apply to foundations. We know that donations to the Clinton Foundation have come from the Saudi royal family, the king of Morocco, and the governments of Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE and Brunei. Wealthy Middle Eastern businessmen have also given big.
Two Federation of American Scientists (FAS) Reports summarizing (and providing a timeline of) the House investigations of the shady dealing of the Clinton administration (and the DNC) and Chinese interests.
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ESTABLISHING THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY AND MILITARY/COMMERCIAL CONCERNS WITH THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (House of Representatives - June 18, 1998)
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[Page: H4760]From MSNBC, May 27, 1998
[FROM MSNBC, MAY 27, 1998]Time Line of Clinton China Decisions
(BY TOM CURRY AND ROBERT WINDREM)
As the Clinton administration debated whether to allow U.S. satellites to be lofted into orbit aboard Chinese missiles, Bernard Schwartz, chairman of Loral Space & Communications, and Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung, allegedly using money from the Chinese army, gave more than $500,000 in soft money, ostensibly used for `party-building efforts,' to the Democrats.
The Justice Department and Congress are investigating how a technical report on the explosion of a Chinese missile in 1996--a report that could help China assess the reliability of its missile arsenal--found its way into the hands of the Chinese.
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The China Connection: Summary of the Committee's Findings Relating to
Efforts of the People's Republic of China to Influence U.S. Policies
and Elections
Committee staff identified several instances of foreign
money donations connected to six individuals with ties to the
PRC. As noted below, John Huang, Maria Hsia, Ted Sioeng, and
James and Mochtar Riady each have been associated in some way
with the Government of China. The sixth, Yah Lin ``Charlie''
Trie, is a business partner of Ng Lap Seng, a Macao businessman
with alleged ties to the PRC. Trie, who recently was indicted
and arrested, escorted Wang Jun, head of China's principal arms
trading company, Polytechnologies, to a February 6, 1996 coffee
with President Clinton and a meeting the same day with Commerce
Secretary Ron Brown.
Of course, it's probably just wishful thinking to expect the MSM to take an interest in all this 'old stuff'