Anyone, after reading the Tribune’s May 19 editorial “China’s money and U.S. security,” will get two impressions: China illegally contributed $100,000 to the Democratic Party campaign in 1996 and as a result of that, U.S. national security would be somewhat harmed.
The Tribune is not alone in spreading these impressions. Similar stories have appeared for more than a year, but none has been proved with any substantial evidence. In this country, there is a widely accepted concept: the suspect is innocent until he is proved guilty. A rumor will remain a rumor, and it will not become the truth by simply repeating it.
China has time and again made it clear that the Chinese government is always opposed to meddling in the domestic affairs of other countries and that China’s own system forbids it to do so in any form. The recent accusations of Liu Chaoying’s involvement in illegal donations to the U.S. Democratic Party in 1996 are sheer rumors and slanders.
These rumors and slanders were fabricated by those people who are unhappy about the improvement of the relations between China and the United States.
