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Cass Ballenger: you have to look at Missilegate and ask yourself one question: Why? Why would the Chinese Communists give millions of…

On the recordJune 9, 1998
you have to look at Missilegate and ask yourself one question: Why? Why would the Chinese Communists give millions of dollars in campaign contributions to the Democrat party and not the Republican Party? What is it that the Chinese Communists want? What is it the Chinese Communist Government, what is their top priority, the one thing they desperately want that the Republicans do not want to let them have? Could it be high technology? The response from the other side is highly revealing. They say, ``Well, Reagan and Bush did it, too,'' but did the Reagan and Bush administration give waiver authority to the Commerce Department? No. Did the Reagan and Bush administrations have monitoring systems in place to ensure that no technology was used for military purposes? Of course they did. Did the Reagan and Bush administrations take campaign money from the Chinese Communists? Of course not. And one thing to consider, the Chinese Communists never, never, never give money for nothing.
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Cass Ballenger
North Carolina

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Discussing campaign contributions from Chinese Communists during a debate on national security.

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