>>This is not just about jobs. If US citizens become a tiny minority in technical fields, China is looking for a chance to surpass us militarily.
I agree with you. Luckily China is too much of a "crap-shack" country to attract talent.<<
There are plenty of Chinese immigrants already in Vancouver. I expect more to go there after Gates opens shop there. Make no mistake, China has a talented and dedicated espionage system. I am not claiming that Chinese aliens are the only danger, but their loyalty to their original homeland is one of the tools Chinese espionage uses.
Gates will not hire foreigners for defense jobs, but I wonder about the vulnerability of our commercial systems as well. Microsoft is working on mysterious security features of certain processors. I wonder if the Chinese already have the some of internal specs of Trusted Platform Module (TPM). TPM seems to be a work in progress, so they would need more info.
Also, MS rubs elbows with DHS, etc:
JANUARY 26, 2007 | It was the best- and worst-kept secret in the security industry this week: A closed-door summit held today and yesterday at Microsoft's headquarters that brought together representatives from antivirus and other security vendors, CERT organizations, the military, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, FBI, SANS, ISPs, Cisco, academia -- and Microsoft, of course.
Microsoft's 'Secret' Security Summit