Letter: China’s choice for next U.S. president? Bush

Monday, Feb. 8, 1999 | 11:08 a.m.

According to the South China Morning Post, a special team under the Communist Party Central Committee's Leading Group on Foreign Affairs has been studying potential candidates and has decided that, in the wake of the Clinton scandals, Bush is more likely to be the next U.S. president than Al Gore.

Of potential candidates, Bush, the special team concluded, would be the most likely to further Chinese interests. "Chinese leaders ... think the young Bush will pursue policies friendly to China because of the influence of his famous father," said the Morning Post's anonymous source.

Isn't it strange that a communist country that financed President Clinton's re-election and received missile technology improvements from the Clinton administration so it could target intercontinental missiles at Boulder Dam in exchange can now dictate to us who our next president is to be?

To think that Clinton is not being impeached for having created this perilous situation is beyond my imagination.

Frank Pelteson

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