Guess who been supplying Red China with
technology and information consulting services since 1995?
Do you know why we keep China abreast in the latest? By the way your date is wrong.
President GHWBush decided he would obey the UN Directorate and "share sophisticated technology with neighbor States" (States is the UN term for Country, then Clinton made damn sure the Republicans weren't going to outstep him and on the story goes.
There has not been a war in the past 100 years that we have not made darn sure the enemy was stocked with the basic necessities before they attacked.
Stupidity or intentional? That is for each of us to decide for ourselves.
Wars create immediate need. Wars give boosts to manufacturing techniques and new products that wouldn't come about for a couple of more decades if left to the normal fiscal flow of corporations.
The cost is in human lives which don't seem to have much value any more. We casually kill them before they even get the chance to breathe our contaminated air.
Who has been supplying China with cutting edge technology weapons systems since the early 1990s? ISRAEL. China's #2 weapons supplier.
I know that isn't a subject anyone in here wants to deal with, but we've got to get a handle on it. None of us wants to see the Palis defeat Israel, but I don't like having an "ally" that we treat so well stab us in the back so deeply and repeatedly. Their actions are worse than that of France or Germany - at least those two are in the open about it. And to make matters worse, the technology they've transferred most likely came to them FROM US.
Yes China "will be" (read: already is) our biggest future OPFOR. Dual-use technologies must be banned.... What about those recently converted planes in the "news" ? ... The last thing we need to support is a Chinese version of AWACS and/or JSTARS, let alone any ChiCom satellite "overhead" capability.... All concerned US parties should face serious time behind bars, overseas, in friendly countries that have, shall we say, "different" laws on the books concerning "interrogation" and other techniques, etcetera.. Maybe applicable laws can be carefully examined and 'surprise' RAIDS and arrests escalated? ...
No more dual-use exports allowed by anyone directly or indirectly.... You sell it to China; you pay the price for the rest of your (forgotten) life.
If this global battle ends in the Middle East (and/or the Pacific) with China trying to "take us out", will we finally wake up to the value of our advanced technology as it applies to the battlefield? The time is NOW to isolate China from any and all high-tech "dual use" equipment.
We need to isolate all companies and all personnel directly and indirectly involved in the technology transfer process (to China) and start getting really "serious" as a State before it is too late