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To: Enlightened1

Once they reverse engineer a device they don’t need to purchase the original any more.

4 posted on 02/25/2015 8:20:10 AM PST by Iron Munro (Mark Steyn: "fundamentally transformed" is a euphemism for "wrecked beyond repair.")

To: Iron Munro

Must be that “free trade” I’ve been hearing about.

8 posted on 02/25/2015 8:30:25 AM PST by headstamp 2

To: Iron Munro

Sometimes they do it with entire companies, such as with Nortel being completely gutted by Huawei.

9 posted on 02/25/2015 8:37:02 AM PST by setha (It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)

To: Iron Munro

“Once they reverse engineer a device they don’t need to purchase the original any more.”

Ask the Russians about this.

And the darned thing is, the Chinese make Russian military stuff better and cheaper!

11 posted on 02/25/2015 9:49:09 AM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")

To: Iron Munro

“Once they reverse engineer a device they don’t need to purchase the original any more.”

AND they can direct the U.S. spyware results to THEIR government instead of to the U.S. government. A real win-win for China.

15 posted on 02/25/2015 1:05:52 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)

To: Iron Munro

We should have done the same 20 years ago when we still lead in many tech areas..... Its a bit late today

19 posted on 02/25/2015 4:38:55 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)

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