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It was only a matter of time before R & D took off in China. You don't manufacture without doing some R & D. Now that China has a steady stream of expendable funds, it's going to begin to make major strides in R & D.

The problem comes about, when one of these R & D developments impacts military readiness. If China's R & D developes state of the art weapons systems, we're going to rue the day we got them off and running.

We are ignoring so many warning signs in relation to China. One day our leaders will simply say, "We never thought they'd resort to this", and our populace will think that makes sense.

Our leaders are messing with fire when it comes to China. We are going to pay heavily for this. I probably won't, but my children and grandchildren most certainly will.

If China's R & D developes state of the art weapons systems, we're going to rue the day we got them off and running.

This presumes that we could have kept them from getting 'off and running'. That started over 20 years ago when they gave up on pure communism and started opening their economy to investment and trade.

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It was only a matter of time before R & D took off in China. You don't manufacture without doing some R & D. Now that China has a steady stream of expendable funds, it's going to begin to make major strides in R & D.

Simply put almost every major ChiCom weapon system has come from another country. Their best two ships are from Russia. China has no R&D. They make lousy copies of imported weapon systems, mostly from Russia. They still have no aircraft carriers. Their subs are at best mid 80s technology and will survive about 1 hour in a war.
Half their airforce is based on the MiG-21 which is a 1970's aircraft. Stealth is beyond them. They have no AWACS or any kind of integrated systems like Aegis or ForceNet.

Our leaders are messing with fire when it comes to China. We are going to pay heavily for this. I probably won't, but my children and grandchildren most certainly will.

I agree and I believe you will live to see it. America is becoming weaker by the year, socially, politicially and economically. China knows this, as many spies have come across our open borders, and report back to their leaders, and they have to be seeing the rotting of America.