Posted on 05/24/2004 5:27:29 PM PDT by LibWhacker
The people I hired were likely not spies, although I cannot know for certain. The characteristics of the security check were such that, a nominal effort on the part of any operatives to falsify their actual status vis a vis active duty in the PLA or intel ops combined with their "legend" (e.g. public career profile) would likely not have been detected by the screen. With the exception of direct DoD contractors under tighter controls, the vast majority of US corporations do not, as a goal, seek to prevent hostile military or intel ops from being hired. They have not even considered the threat, let alone taken action against it. Therefore, at corporations who are themselves often non-DoD controlled suppliers to DoD primes, or, are simple commercial firms, the opportunity for hostile operatives to have been embedded is immense. Benes to the Communist powers are not only industrial epsionage of prescribed, export controlled dual use items, but also, placement of ops who now have access to key financial data systems and IT systems, and who can effect massive economic or cyber attack on command. War by other means - classic Sun Tzu thought.
Russia and India know something we don't know: That China cannot escape its borders.
Ping. Food for thought. Consider the numbers of H1Bs who are PRC nationals (not to mention ones from other nations I do not trust). Among them must be active duty PLA or intel ops. In many large multinationals in the US, and other Western countries, some of them have write access to key finanacial data and other corporate IT systems. Consider the possibilities. Thank God Japan, Taiwan and a few other allies do not allow such sloppy hiring to go on in their own corporations - those allies may be the only thing up and running (in limp-along mode) if a worst case non conventional cyber / economic attack happens.
And therefore, they must build a virtual over-land bridge to the south. And to think that, at least in the case of the autobahnen being built into Thailand, a bunch of duped businessmen in Bangkok are helping to pay for them!
China's enemies are always within.
Our submariners will kick their ass. NOBODY outwits or outplays our Silent Service.
Nobody.
In the end...Germany, Japan, and several others could not either...that didn't stop them from trying or prevent the bloodbaths it took to contain them.
Our southern border is sieve, we check only a fraction of the containers coming in...there are many ways into our nation.
I explore this in great detail and the potential downside of having so many sappers already within the perimeter when the baloons go up in the Dragon's Fury Series, along with many, many other considerations (from outsourceing, to immigration, to downsizing, to Chinese control of the Panama Canal, etc.).
Let me know what you think should you read any of them.
Best Fregards.
I have recently bought your first book, though I haven't had time to get to it yet with the other books that I have laying around. I hate it when I buy more books than I have time to read, but I hope to get to it in the next month after I finish reading Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France.
The last World War was even MORE "fun!"
"Not only have rats handed them our technology on a silver platter, we've been training our enemies for a generation now how to take that technology and run with it, improve upon it, and discover who knows what? Makes me sick."
Not only that but when the final conflict happens, it will be the first time in history that one nation(China)planned and funded it's war build-up off of trade with it's enemy (U.S.).
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