I trust that thug Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin [Влади́мир Влади́мирович Пу́тин] like I trusted Josef Stalin.
Perhaps I’ll have to stand corrected, but my take on this is that the Clinton administration gave the Chinese access to just about everything we had in the way of technology.
If you look at their designs, whose aircraft do they look like, the Russian’s or our own? I haven’t myself taken a look at everything they have, but some of it looks pretty U.S.-like.
While it wasn’t top notch stuff, there was an aircraft manufacturing plant back in the Chicago region, and the Chinese bought everything at the plant after it shut down.
They moved every bit of that plant’s equipment to China. It wasn’t a top level plant, but as I understand it, it wasn’t shabby either. They gained a lot of inside information for dirt cheap.
Our leaders have sold us way way way down the river.