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China Is Our Number One National Security Threat
Investor's Business Daily ^ | May 29, 2013 | IBD EDITORIALS

Posted on 05/29/2013 4:14:15 PM PDT by raptor22

Cyberwar: Chinese hackers have obtained the designs for more than two dozen major U.S. weapon systems, including the Navy's missile defense system and our latest fighter. Our very national survival may soon be at risk.

When President Barack Obama meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time on June 7-8 in California, we hope he will not bow but rather demand the Chinese stop their cyberwar against the U.S. that has reaped for them the designs for more than two dozen major weapon systems used by the U.S. military.

According to a previously undisclosed section of a confidential report prepared for Pentagon leaders by the Defense Science Board, the Chinese have obtained detailed plans for the advanced Patriot missile system, the Navy's Aegis ballistic missile defense system, the F/A-18 fighter jet, the V-22 Osprey, the Black Hawk helicopter and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

The Defense Science report doesn't directly accuse the Chinese, but it follows a Defense Department condemnation of their activities earlier this month.

"In 2012, numerous computer systems around the world, including those owned by the U.S. government, continued to be targeted for intrusions, some of which appear to be attributable directly to the Chinese government and military," the Defense Department alleged in a previous report.

Meanwhile, news reports in Australia claim hackers linked to China stole the floor plans of the $630 million headquarters for the Australia Security Intelligence Organization, the country's domestic spy agency. Australia is to play a key role in the administration's attempt to "pivot" our dwindling military assets to the Pacific.

According to a report in the Washington Post, the Chinese now have the know-how to emulate some of the Pentagon's most sophisticated programs.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: china; cyber; cyberwarfare; dotcommi; hackers; ibdchina; ibdcyber; unit61398
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Wanna play global thermonuclear war?
1 posted on 05/29/2013 4:14:15 PM PDT by raptor22
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0bama and his Brothers Muzzie are the greatest long term risk.


2 posted on 05/29/2013 4:16:37 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Absolutely. The Chinese have more credibility than our lying P.O.S. pResident.


3 posted on 05/29/2013 4:18:47 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: raptor22
Some of us have known for quite a while now.


4 posted on 05/29/2013 4:19:36 PM PDT by McGruff (I can't speak to the law here. The law is irrelevant,)
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To: raptor22
WRONG! Liberals, progressives, homos, atheists, leftists, oligarchs, statists, elitists, autocrats, communists, and uninformed voters are the greatest threat to the republic!

China doesn't want to destroy us like the modern left does. China does not want to dominate us. They just want us not to be able to muck up their sphere of influence.

QUe the Cicero circa 45 A.D. quote on traitors.

5 posted on 05/29/2013 4:20:07 PM PDT by DCBryan1
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Hey but ... surely Canada with its desire to flood the U.S. with cheap, reliable oil must rank right up there?


6 posted on 05/29/2013 4:22:38 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (It wasn't this cold before global warming)
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To: Paladin2

Indeed. Team Obama is doing a fine job of WRECKING America all by themselves. They are directly responsible for many of the recent security leaks. The only sensitive information they care about is related to keeping their scandals secret.


7 posted on 05/29/2013 4:26:48 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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"Canada with its desire to flood the U.S. with cheap, reliable oil must rank right up there? "

I, for one, dare them to do so....

8 posted on 05/29/2013 4:29:31 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Nachum; markomalley; Clairity; Carlucci; grey_whiskers; meyer; WL-law; Para-Ord.45; ...

IBD EDITORIAL PING


9 posted on 05/29/2013 4:29:58 PM PDT by raptor22 (Visit my blog at True Conservatives on Twitter: http://t.co/IKpP3cwq)
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But...but.....the Free Traders always told us that Free Trade would open up Communist China

Not only Free Trade with Communist China is economic stupidity ....its a national security threat


10 posted on 05/29/2013 4:34:12 PM PDT by SeminoleCounty (GOP - Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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China wants to dominate the world and subjugate all other countries, including and especially the US.

The things they are doing today are in line with their ultimate goal above.


11 posted on 05/29/2013 4:36:50 PM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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Canada has to sell the US 2/3 of their oil/natural gas....as stipulated in NAFTA. They will not be able to ship their petrol elsewhere beyond 1/3 of their production


12 posted on 05/29/2013 4:38:30 PM PDT by SeminoleCounty (GOP - Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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To: raptor22

Nonsense. Climate change is obviously our greatest threat. Al Gore said so.


13 posted on 05/29/2013 4:38:39 PM PDT by wny
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To: raptor22

I think the Ottoman empire is our number 1 threat


14 posted on 05/29/2013 4:42:40 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: raptor22
we hope he will not bow but rather demand the Chinese stop their cyberwar against the U.S.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Obama?

Oh c'mon IBD, Obama will never make any such demand of the Commies. He's an America-hating creampuff. He probably personally gave the designs to the Commies, anyway.

And he WILL bow, just to gild the lily.

15 posted on 05/29/2013 4:44:05 PM PDT by bkopto (Obama and Biden are merely symptoms of a more profound, systemic disease in American body politic.)
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Scolding the Chinese will not put the horse back in the barn. Obama’s Administration failed, once again, to do the job. Now our only choice is To spend Billions on actual R and D to take it up another notch. Perhaps we should have been guarding the Nation instead of spying on it.

But with all the trillions spent, and virtually no infrastructure work done, I suspect there is not much left in the kitty. Specially since the Chinese are not going to lend us the money to replace our defenses that they can now bypass.

Zero really screwed the pooch this time. A lot of people will pay with their lives for our golf champ Preztitute.

16 posted on 05/29/2013 4:46:45 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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IBD EDITORIAL PING


17 posted on 05/29/2013 4:48:39 PM PDT by raptor22 (Visit my blog at True Conservatives on Twitter: http://t.co/IKpP3cwq)
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18 posted on 05/29/2013 4:49:33 PM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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When they stop giving money to US presidential candidates, this will stop.


19 posted on 05/29/2013 5:00:37 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Pi$$ed off yet?)
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China is a strong number two, but I think our own federal government is numero uno.


20 posted on 05/29/2013 5:12:00 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Every penny given to film and TV media companies goes right into enemy coffers. Starve them out!)
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