LaRouche Responds: China Stops Military Exchanges With U.S., After U.S. Sells Taiwan Weapons

The question was raised during Lyndon LaRouche's Jan. 30 webcast: how serious is this and what in the world is Obama thinking?

On Jan. 30 the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced that it was postponing military-to-military exchanges with the United States, as well as planned discussions at the vice ministerial level on strategic security, arms control, and nuclear proliferation in retaliation for the announced U.S. sales of new weaponry to Taiwan, sales which, China's Foreign Ministry stated "incurred severe damage to U.S.-China relations." The sale items included advanced Patriot missiles, Blackhawk helicopters, and minesweepers.

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei called in U.S. Ambassador John Huntsman, for an urgent meeting, in which He launched a "solemn representation." A Foreign Ministry statement quoted He, that the U.S. decision "constitutes a gross intervention into China's internal affairs, seriously endangers China's national security and harms China's peaceful reunification efforts. The U.S. plan will definitely further undermine China-U.S. relations and bring about serious negative impact on exchanges and cooperation in major areas between the two countries, and lead to an aftermath both sides are unwilling to see." The Foreign Ministry added that China would also impose sanctions on those U.S. companies that were involved in the sales. The statement also warned that the weapons sales would also affect cooperation with the U.S. on important regional and international issues.

A senior U.S. intelligence source noted that the Obama Administration had rejected a number of other military systems requested by Tawian, including F-16 fighter jets, and that part of the reason for the harsh Chinese response was the heightened expectations of a major improvement in Sino-American relations under Obama, change that has not been forthcoming. He did emphasize the importance of the continuation and expansion of military-to-military ties, which have lagged far behind Sino-American economic and political cooperation. The source added that the Chinese were further angered by the mounting pressure against China's monetary and financial policies—especially given that China played a central role in helping to "stabilize" the present, bankrupt international financial system during the 2008 meltdown.

Yesterday at his webcast, Lyndon LaRouche addressed this issue starting with the role of President Obama:

"Obama's a British agent. He's not a loyal American. But he's no damned good, on top of that. The point is, this is a deliberate British move against China. Now, the key thing you have to do is you have to say, the Chinese complain about this. Good, you're right. But we don't consider Obama our President. He's a British stooge. Now, we have to combine ourselves together to get rid of this stooge. It's a humanitarian question, not a diplomatic question. We want a human President. We don't have one right now. And that's the way you have to approach it. We have to be frank. You know, someone says, well, China's done this. You see, this is the OLD game, the old British game: get two people to fight. Create an issue to get them to fight each other. Then let them become enemies who want to do bad things to each other. This is what Google was doing. Same thing. Silly. It's not Google, it's orchestrated. It's Obama. It's British. So why not say so? Say, this is another reason for getting rid of Obama."