Volume 46, Number 12 · July 15, 1999
Washington: The Yellow Peril
By Lars-Erik Nelson
Report of the Select Committee on US National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China
submitted by Mr. Cox of California, Chairman.
US Government Printing Office, three volumes, 909 pp., $81.00 (paper)
Year of the Rat: How Bill Clinton Compromised US Security for Chinese Cash
by Edward Timperlake, by William C. Triplett II
Regnery, 275 pp., $24.95
In the early 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy era, 'allegations arose' (as the Cox report so vaguely and aptly puts it) that Qian Xuesen, a Chinese-born American rocket scientist, was a spy for the People's Republic of China. Qian had fled the Japanese invasion of China in 1935, emigrated to the United States, and earned a master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a doctorate from the California Institute of Technology. He was recognized as one of the world's foremost experts on jet propulsion, commissioned as a colonel in the US Air Force, and honored for the pioneering work he had done for his adopted country, including development of the Titan intercontinental ballistic missile.
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