[2ndDivisionVet]

The author raises many questions as to China's intentions. Here are some other articles in the same vein:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/12/29/84802.shtml

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/12/22/105404.shtml

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/12/7/132748.shtml

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/12/15/105747.shtml

[Flavius]

Metal Storm weapon can make a million shots per minute from many barrels simultaneously

thats got to be a bi.ch to reload

[Zhang Fei]

China has been graduating large numbers of engineering people for a while. The problem is that you can't mass produce initiative and creative thinking. All these guys know how to do is pass exams. If a corporation somehow manages to discover a need for large numbers of excellent test takers, China definitely fits the bill. If it wants people who will actually generate innovative products that will meet the needs of the marketplace, it will pretty much have to go elsewhere.

[matt1234]

The biggest problem with China:

hundreds of millions raised with no moral or religious guidance except the Communist Party. It will take at least a generation to redress, short of war. Probably more.

[generalhammond]

China will do anything to get this technology AND prevent it from being developed and used by the West by poaching the inventor, Mike O'Brien, for $100 million. Read more at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/04/wchina04.xml

 

 

[jeddavis]

China is missing something like 60,000,000 women right now because of their one child law; they're going to need a flag with a hammer, a sickle, and a pink flamingo on it. That's aside from the fact that 65% of them are still farming for a living. No way would I trade our problems in life for theirs.

[Calpernia]

China is China's worst enemy. They keep playing with germs in Guangdong and kicking themselves in the Hong Kong.

[Lexinom]

Speaking on Australia's Nine Network, Mike O'Dwyer said that a representative of China had called him over the phone and said: "We want you and your family in Beijing," to finish his work on Metal Storm weapons. His salary? $100 million a year, with $50 million on arrival in China.

Of course! He and his wife may wish to buy a mansion of their own or whatever else.

O'Dwyer turned down the offer and reported it to the Australian government, which responded with its advice on how he "should continue the discussion" and on how to preserve his "personal safety." O'Dwyer said he would like to have seen a little more concern.

Had O'Dwyer accepted the $100-million-a-year offer, no one would have known about it. An Australian going to work in China? Big deal! Nowadays this is fashionable!

So who is talking about this? Any of our '08 contenders? Does anyone care? Anyone? Going once... going twice...

[Teacher317]

Quality vs quantity...

China has far more engineering grads (many of whom come here for their sheepskins), but their reputation for poor construction quality is well-earned. When I was in Bejing last year, a new multi-million building on a national top 3 campus was losing its brick facing even before it was opened to the students. Bricks were falling 10 stories onto the sidewalk below. (I have no idea how it was fixed, and/or when it was opened.)