PC answers on Panama Canal

J Michael Waller / Insight magazine / 22 November 1999 – Four administration witnesses assured the Senate Armed Services Committee on Oct. 22 that a Chinese company controlling ports at both ends of the Panama Canal poses no security problem to the United States. Confidently and with a whiff of condescension they dismissed concerns that … Read more

China’s beachhead at Panama Canal

J Michael Waller / Insight magazine / 16 August 1999 Reporting from Balboa, Insight uncovers China’s most recent political and economic maneuverings to obtain effective control of the Panama Canal as the US leaves. [Note: When Insight magazine’s print edition was closed, the publishers shut down its online edition. The link to the original no … Read more

From butter to missiles (how US aid funds Russian nuclear modernization)

by J Michael Waller, Washington Times, December 15, 1998. Russia’s new government leaders have yet to devise a coherent recovery plan as they beg for Western economic and food aid. But instead, they have been spending their time and money preparing for — of all things — nuclear war against the United States and its allies. … Read more

No nukes pointed this way? Think again.

by J Michael Waller, Washington Times, July 6, 1998 After years of assuring the public that no nuclear missiles are aimed at the United States, President Clinton came to China with a proposal to Beijing — a proposal admitting that what he told the American people was untrue. The president asked China’s communist leaders to de-target … Read more

IMF and the Russian missiles

by J Michael Waller, Washington Times, January 23, 1998 American national security depends on Congress providing more money for the International Monetary Fund. That’s what Defense Secretary William Cohen is telling fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill, in a last-ditch administration effort to bail out troubled economies in Asia and elsewhere. For those unmoved by economic arguments, … Read more