[Smokin' Joe]

That all this would be necessary if the equipment were purchased from elewhwere is true. However, while a significant portion of the Chinese population is engaged in blue-collar tasks, from planting rice to factory work, the Chinese have developed their best talents in the field of science and engineering since the days when China was closed to the West. The best of the best get a thorough technical/scientific education, and have been kept up to date via western journals since well back in the cold war days.

It is by no means inconcievable that the Chinese have obtained the designs for western equipment and built knock-offs or even designed their own and manufactured it. Especially when you factor in the pervasive security breaches evident in the trade practices of the Clinton Administration. If Los Alamos was penetrated, then what other facilities may have also been compromised?

Never, never underestimate the capabilities of a potential enemy.

[_Jim]

That all this would be necessary if the equipment were purchased from elewhwere is true.

China is a leading producer of electron microscopes?

China is a leading producer of automated hi-tech lab equipment?

Furthermore, is it your contention that these facilities *do* indeed exist in the back-woods of China for the purposes of broducing so-called bio-engineered viruses BUT these facilites and supporting infrastructure are invisible to both the naked eye and spy satellites?

Frankly, I don't get your point. I don't think you got mine either, as evidenced by a couple of posts now ...