November 22, 2007 (LPAC)--Over recent days, leading economist Lyndon LaRouche has stressed the absolute necessity of getting cooperation from China in order to establish the urgently required new monetary arrangement needed to replace the collapsing world system. It is in this context that the latest provocation from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission must be evaluated.

The Commission, established by Congress in 2000 as part of a "bash-China'' campaign, released its report on Nov. 21. As reported, typically, in a frontpage article in the Washington Times, the conclusions include the following:

"The Commission concluded that China is developing its military in ways that enhance its capacity to confront the United States. ... For example, China has developed the capability to wage cyber-warfare and to destroy surveillance satellites overhead as part of its tactical, asymmetrical warfare arsenal.''

The report also claimed that China was engaged in a "large-scale industrial espionage campaign'' with "scores'' of cases involving spies.

A Chinese spokesman has already responded to the report's allegations, including those on China's currency policy.

Congress has apparently learned nothing from the fact that its previous provocations against the People's Republic of China, have resulted in an accelerating pullout by China, one of the U.S.'s largest creditors, from the dollar--as Lyndon LaRouche had warned. Or is the Commission perhaps another British tool, seeking to manipulate a conflict that will actually destroy the United States?