Declaring that “the Republican Party must go back to its anti-Communist roots,” Rep. Thad McCotter (R.-Mich.) today stepped up his attacks on mainland China’s Huawei Technologies attempts to acquire 3Com, an American company that services the Pentagon with security technologies.
McCotter’s discussion of his hardline stand against what he never fails to dub “Communist China” - not calling them that, he told HUMAN EVENTS today, “is like not calling Rep. Charles Rangel a Democrat” - comes as Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R.-Fla.) has introduced H.R. #26 to call for a national security review by the Committee on Investments in the United States (CFIUS) before Huawei Technologies purcharses 3Com.
Recalling how “the Chinese Communist are already responsible for the deepest penetration of our defense technology,” McCotter also spelled out to two HUMAN EVENTS reporters his exasperation with what he calls the Bush Administration’s “unconditional engagement” of the Beijing regime.
“The acquisition of 3Com by Communist China is a direct threat to we free people,” McCotter told us, recalling how in June of this year, the Pentagon was force to shut down part of a computer system after a massive cyberattack conducted by the People’s Liberation Army - “the armed wing of the Communist Party in China and its pillar of power,” he added.
Seven years ago, the CIA also discovered that Huawei was selling fiber optics equipment to Saddam Hussein to assist Iraqi technology and its military capacity. This was in direct violation of the UN international embargo.
McCotter also voiced his strong suspicion that the Beijing government and that of Russian President Vladimir Putin are working closer together than the two superpowers did during the Cold War. “It is very much an inverted détente,” McCotter said.
Underscoring his criticism of the Bush Administration’s embrace of Beijing is McCotter’s strong view that “the Republican Party must go back to its anti-communist roots.”
