PORTRAIT OF A CLINTON CONTRIBUTOR

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Note: Liu Chao Ying is the managing director of missile-maker
China Aerospace International. She was described by the
Salt Lake Tribune as

the daughter of senior Chinese general Liu Huaqing,
the influential vice chairman of the military commission
that oversees the Chinese army's huge empire of defense,
industrial and trading companies.

Here is some information on Liu Huaqing:

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Liu Huaqing

1. Current offices and rank

Party member, CPC Central Committee
Military general (Navy)
State vice-chairman of the PRC Central Military Commission
Professional military political commissar

2. Biodata

Birth details: October 1916 in Dawu County, Hubei (Dawu county,
north of Wuhan city, was called Lishan county before 1952; Lishan
county was created in 1933 by amalgamating parts of four
counties)

Military service: Anti-encirclement campaign, Hubei-Henan-Anhui
Revolutionary Base; Long March; West Expedition; East Expedition,
Shangdang campaign, Handan campaign, Huai-Hai campaign, Dabie
Mountains, Changjiang (Yangzi) crossing.

3. Curriculum vitae

Date (y/m/d) Event
1916/10 birth
1929/10 joined the Youth League of the Communist Party of China
1930-31 secretary, Huang'an central county committee, Communist
Youth League
1930/12 joined the Chinese Workers & Peasants Red Army
1932-34 section head, East Hubei Guerrilla Headquarters
1934-35 section head, Political Department, 25th Army
1935/10 joined the Communist Party of China
1935-36 section head, Enemy Work Department, 15th Army
1937 section head, Confidential Work Section, 31st Army
1937-39 secretary and director, Publicity and Education Section,
129 Division, 8th Route Army
1941-45 director, Organisation Department, South Hebei Military
Region and Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region
1945 sub-regional political commissar, Hebei-Shandong-Henan
Military Region
1945-49 brigade political commissar, Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan
Military Region
1949 director, Political Department, 3rd Army Corps
1950-51 director, Southwest Region Military-Political University
1951-52 deputy political commissar, 2nd Field Army
1952-54 vice-president and later also deputy political commissar,
No. 1 Naval Academy
1954-58 student, Voroshilov Naval Academy (USSR), graduated in
1958
1958-60 deputy base commander, Navy
1960-61 base commander and deputy fleet commander, Beihai fleet
1961-65 director and party committee member, 7th Research
Institute, Ministry of National Defence
1965-66 vice minister, 6th Ministry of Machine-building Industry
1966-70 vice minister (in charge of), Commission of Defence
Science and Technology
1970-75 deputy chief of staff, Navy
1980-82 deputy chief of General Staff, PLA
1982-87 commander and deputy party secretary, Navy; member, CPC
Central Committee
1987 deputy secretary-general, CPC Central Military Commission;
member, CPC Central Advisory Commission
1988 member, PRC Central Military Commission made general
1992 vice chairman, CPC Central Military Commission; member,
Standing Committee of the CPC Political Bureau;
1997/9/19 failed to be nominated as a candidate for membership of
the Politburo of the 15th CPC Central Committee; lost his vice
chairmanship of the CPC

Central Military Commission

4. Comments and evaluations

Liberthal (1995:227) reported that Deng Xiaoping brought General
Liu out of retirement and into the Political Bureau to ensure
military support for the reformist civilian successors to Deng.

General Liu was the driving force behind the modernisation of the
PLA Navy and its acquisition of more modern technology.

In the wake of the CPC's 15th National Congress, General Liu
looks set for retirement into political obscurity.

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NEW: Fund-raiser tells investigators he funneled Chinese money to
Democrats

Associated Press 2.19 p.m. ET (1820 GMT) May 15, 1998 By Larry
Margasak

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung told
federal investigators he sent campaign contributions from a
Chinese military officer to the Democrats during the 1996
presidential campaign, congressional sources familiar with the
case said today.

Members of Congress and some staff members received classified
briefings from the FBI on the contributions Thursday night,
according to the sources, who agreed to discuss the matter on
condition on anonymity.

Confirming a story first reported in today's editions of The New
York Times, they said that Chung told investigators the money
came from the People's Liberation Army through an aerospace
executive who also was a lieutenant colonel.

The executive's father is Gen. Liu Huaqing, who was a member of
the Communist Party leadership and the top Chinese military
commander.

Chung gave some $80,000 to the Democratic National Committee in
the summer of 1996, the Times said, and told prosecutors much of
it came from his Chinese contact.

U.S. law forbids foreign governments from contributing to
political campaigns.

The executive, Liu Chao-ying, was photographed with President
Clinton at a fund-raising event. Chung gained admission for her.

Chung pleaded guilty in federal court last March to charges of
funneling $20,000 in illegal contributions to Clinton's re-
election campaign; charges involving an $8,000 donation to the
campaign of Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.; tax evasion; and
fraudulently obtaining a $157,500 loan on his home.

Chung, who is now cooperating with federal prosecutors, is to be
sentenced in July. His lawyer, Brian Sun, could not immediately
be reached for comment.

When he opened his campaign fund-raising hearings last year, Sen.
Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., said he learned from intelligence
officials that China had a plan to influence U.S. elections in
1996.

"What we have here is apparently hard evidence of the execution
of the China plan,'' Thompson said today in an interview.
"Everybody acknowledged and agreed there was a plan. The big
debate was whether it was executed and whether it involved the
presidential campaign. That debate is now over.''

Thompson said Chung's statements "may be the tip of the iceberg,
because a half-dozen other intermediarieis were bringing money
from China and other places.''

Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., a member of Thompson's committee,
said, "This is explosive.''

Specter said he has begun new discussions with Senate Majority
Leader Trent Lott and other colleagues about a renewed effort to
demand an independent counsel in the Justice Department's
campaign fund-raising probe.

A Taiwan-born U.S. citizen, Chung was the fourth person charged
in the campaign finance scandal but the first to agree to
cooperate with investigators in an effort to avoid a lengthy
prison sentence.

He was accused of setting up "straw donors'' who wrote campaign
donation checks, then were reimbursed by Chung in order to skirt
contribution limits.

Chung's contributions were returned after questions arose about
their legality.