I’d sure like to find out.
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An October article in Stars and Stripes chillingly details how one company is building China’s war machine:
China put on a spectacular military parade to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Communist Party rule last year, and President Xi Jinping wasn’t the only star of that show.
As Xi and other leaders watched from a Tiananmen Square grandstand, a squadron of fighter jets, attack helicopters, troop transports and surveillance planes roared overhead in a display orchestrated to impress TV viewers at home and warn potential aggressors abroad.
Arizona Gov Ducey championed the company that made those aircraft: Aviation Industry Corp. of China (AVIC), a state-owned conglomerate with 100-plus subsidiaries and 450,000-plus employees — more than Boeing Co. and Airbus SE combined.
This places Arizona in the position of helping China edge closer to parity with America on military technology. “Works in progress, according to Chinese state media, include a stealth fighter and a seaplane that would be the world’s largest amphibious aircraft,” Stars and Stripes reports.
“There is still a gap between where AVIC is and where the U.S. is, but AVIC has been able to slowly narrow that gap,” Tai Ming Cheung, a professor at the U of California San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy, told Stars and Stripes, the U.S. military newspaper.
CONTACT PAGE FOR GOV DUCEY:
https://azgovernor.gov/engage/form/contact-governor-ducey
May run out of rope too...