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Did China Steal Its Way to Military Might?
https://nationalinterest.org ^ | December 29, 2021 | by Robert Farley

Posted on 12/30/2021 10:28:36 AM PST by RomanSoldier19

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The United States has become increasingly aggressive about slowing down or halting China’s industrial espionage efforts.

As the People’s Republic of China (PRC) emerged from war and revolution in 1949, it became apparent that the Chinese economy lacked the capacity to compete with the U.S. or the U.S.S.R. in the production of advanced military technology. Transfers from the Soviet Union helped remedy the gap in the 1950s, as did transfers from the United States and Europe in the 1970s and 1980s. Still, the Cultural Revolution stifled technology and scientific research, leaving the Chinese even farther behind.

Thus, China has long supplemented legitimate transfers and domestic innovation with industrial espionage. In short, the PRC has a well-established habit of pilfering weapons technology from Russia and the United States. As the years have gone by, Beijing’s spies have become ever more skillful and flexible in their approach. Here are five systems that the Chinese have stolen or copied, in whole or in part:

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1 posted on 12/30/2021 10:28:36 AM PST by RomanSoldier19
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To: RomanSoldier19

“The United States has become increasingly aggressive about slowing down or halting China’s industrial espionage efforts.”

Too late. Horse has long ago left that barn.


2 posted on 12/30/2021 10:30:51 AM PST by KingLudd
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To: RomanSoldier19

Russia sold them most of it.


3 posted on 12/30/2021 10:31:05 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Thank heavens for FR so we don’t have to suffer that links gauntlet of advertising.


4 posted on 12/30/2021 10:34:24 AM PST by Track9 (Agamemnon came home to a HRC type party. )
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To: RomanSoldier19

Yes.


5 posted on 12/30/2021 10:34:35 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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Did China Steal Its Way to Military Might?

Hell no!!!!!

They bought it from American politicians with campaign contributions!!!

6 posted on 12/30/2021 10:35:42 AM PST by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets........Now, we are them.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Yes, if you consider bribery as theft.

They caught Democrat Vice-President Al Gore walking around with two suitcases full of cash from the Chinese.

The response from the press?

“Aw shucks. That’s just Al. Ha! Ha! Ha!”


7 posted on 12/30/2021 10:36:52 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: RomanSoldier19
Why waste your time stealing when Bill Clinton GAVE them the technology for free?!

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/11/world/clinton-approves-technology-transfer-to-china.html
8 posted on 12/30/2021 10:37:10 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: RomanSoldier19

|No, they bought it, fair and square..................


9 posted on 12/30/2021 10:38:05 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Roccus

Alas, I fear you are right.


10 posted on 12/30/2021 10:38:22 AM PST by econjack (I'm not bossy. I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

China has so many soldiers that even without high tech weaponry they are a formidable opponent. So the addition of high tech weaponry essentially makes them unbeatable in a conventional warfare scenario. Which means that any serious conflict with them would quickly degenerate to a nuclear weapons exchange. Survivability calculations then become part of the equation.


11 posted on 12/30/2021 10:38:43 AM PST by Rowdyone (Vigilence)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Is it really ‘stealing’ when the ‘victim’ holds the door open for you (by voting Democrat)?


12 posted on 12/30/2021 10:38:53 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

This article is at least 40 years too late.


13 posted on 12/30/2021 10:42:21 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: RomanSoldier19

Too late (by 40-years) to worry about locking the barn door...
All the horses are far down the road...


14 posted on 12/30/2021 10:43:08 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: ifinnegan

Our elites gave them most of it.


15 posted on 12/30/2021 10:43:12 AM PST by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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To: Roccus

Look at how many Chinese nationals are in every highly rated graduate tech program in US universities.

We’re educating their best and brightest.


16 posted on 12/30/2021 10:44:14 AM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: RomanSoldier19

The Chinese Communist Party couldn’t invent water ,LOL


17 posted on 12/30/2021 10:46:46 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: blueunicorn6

I remember that.


18 posted on 12/30/2021 10:47:35 AM PST by sauropod (Resident Bidet. A confused old man at the wrong bus stop.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Virtually all the electronics and software on their planes and ships has been pirated. Virtually none of it has been combat tested. There is always the sneaky suspicion that somewhere deep within the alogarithms someone, somehow planted a dormant virus that just might be problematic at the worst possible time.


19 posted on 12/30/2021 10:48:59 AM PST by allendale
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To: nascarnation

From my experience, you are quite correct.


20 posted on 12/30/2021 10:50:31 AM PST by CletusVanDamme (Well I'm all broken up about that man's rights...)
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