[superiorslots]

NEEDS TO BE REPEATED




"More and more manufacturing of ship components and systems will migrate to China as DOD encourages foreign sourcing in its efforts to find the cheapest sources," says Brown. "This has already begun with regard to materials for naval components. The manufacture of entire components and systems will migrate to China in the next several years under current DOD policy with respect to outsourcing."

[Teacher317]

Just got back from a 6 week Law School study program at Renmin University in Beijing. I absolutely loved being there. However, the image that will forever stick in my mind regarding Chinese construction is the beautiful $100M 15-story brick-faced building that is new main campus buiding. It's 99% completed, and sits just across from the Law School building that we were using.

It was supposed to be open a few months ago, but we were told repeated that it was not ready for the public because it was still undergoing "safety inspections". What does that mean? Well, twice during the 6 weeks I was there, I saw holes in the face of the building, where dozens of bricks had come loose and fallen... from over 120+ ft up, onto the main entrace sidewalk below. I never bothered to check out the other 80% of the external walls, and never got a chance to go inside and see what things looked like. (However, many of the other buildings near campus that are less than 10 years old are showing intense amounts of wear, and often feature power lines within reach of anyone over 5' tall. I would have guessed them to be 30+ years old.)

This is to be the focal building for one of China's top universities... and they are unable to get the brick exterior to be safe enough for students to enter the building! Chinese construction deserves its global reputation as total crap. How they will ensure first-class warfare equipment is beyond me.