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You need to prove that Clinton allowed Aegis technology out. Sure you can say he did a number of things, but that doesn't make it so. It is clear that his liberal licensing allowed sensitive satellite and space launching technology slip though.

The Russian and the Chinese might have been collaborating on Aegis type systems for more than a decade. You already suggested as much when you mention the Soviet SkyWatch system. If there is anything to blame for their leaps, other than the Russians, it would be the free access to technology provided by the Information Age as well as free trade in dual use technology.

Information isn't bound up anymore like it was only ten year ago, and the barriers keeping stuff truly secret are falling away. Take the 052C, I knew about that for almost two months. Pictures of Chinese weapons you would think are secret seemed to get on the net some how.

My last point on this subject concern the Chinese single minded determination to undo the Cultural Revolution which I understand decimated their scientific know how. For at least two decades they have been graduating an enormous amount of science, engineering, and mathematics PHD and even more undergrads. This combined with the free flow of information in this world, it is no wonder that the Chinese are catching up in some areas.