Old article from 2002 on Prescott Bush, Jr.'s ties to Communist China

[Ardent15]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2002/02/19/usat-prescott-bush.htm

"CHICAGO — When President Bush arrives in Beijing on Thursday, he'll embrace a policy that's something of a family tradition.

Bush's approach centers on promoting U.S.-China economic ties. That's a course favored not only by his father, the first President Bush, but also by his uncle, Prescott Bush Jr., a longtime acquaintance of Chinese President Jiang Zemin.

The Bush family's ties to China go back to 1974, when President Nixon named George Bush ambassador to China. The college-age George W. Bush spent two months in China visiting his parents during his father's two-year stint."


snip

"Along with access, the family name has also brought scrutiny to Prescott Bush's deals:

* He was criticized in 1989 for visiting China to meet with business and government leaders just three months after the Tiananmen Square massacre, in which army troops fired at pro-democracy demonstrators.
* His Shanghai partnership with the Japanese firm Aoki in 1988 proved embarrassing when revelations surfaced that Aoki at the same time was allegedly trying to get business contracts by bribing Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega, whom the first President Bush later ousted from power.
* His connections to an American firm, Asset Management, came into question in 1989, when the company was the only U.S. firm able to skirt U.S. sanctions and import communications satellites into China.
* When Asset Management went bankrupt later that year, Bush's deal to arrange a buyout through West Tsusho, a Japanese investment firm, raised eyebrows. Newspapers reported that Japanese police were investigating West Tsusho's alleged ties to organized crime."

The Bush Crime Family knows no limits.

[shraby]

1. Didn't one of the bushies get in trouble with hookers over

in that part of the world a few years ago? Seems I remember something about it.

[Ardent15]

2. That would be Dubya's brother Neil. nt

[upi402]

5. Neil Bush, His looting of a Savings & Loan was covered over by

the bombing of Iraq the first time, and by his Daddy -George H.W. Bush.

Silence after that, he got away with it. I wont forget.

[upi402]

3. The Bush crime family

Making the Mafia look like Boyscouts for generations.

[EFerrari]

4. Interesting. Thanks.

K&R

[hootinholler]

6. Der Fishie put a thread up recently mentioning Prescott Jr.

Here it is.

{Here's another reference to the article with some additional interesting tidbits.

:hi:

-Hoot

[EFerrari]

7. Thank you, hoot! I'm up baking bread of all things.

lol

Now I have something to read. :)

[hootinholler]

9. Oh please tell me you have a fine sourdough culture on your counter

Email me a slice of that home made bread please. I was raised on it because we couldn't afford wonderbread and I miss good bread terribly.

-Hoot

[Bitwit1234]

8. The History Channel getting into dirty politics with the Kennedy smear

they could surely tell a really true story if they only put all the Bush scams and actions into a great big wrap up.