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Bill Clinton had nothing to do with this, and honestly too much credit is given to him when it comes to the Chinese (whereby any ChiCom invention is always accredited to the Slick Willy). The layers of corruption that have American top-tier technology flowing into ChiCom hands is beyond Clinton. For that matter it cuts into broad swathes of industry and politics (and BOTH the Republicans and Democrats). The shame on Clinton is that a lot of stuff happened under his watch, but just as much happened under Bush 1 and currently under GW. Clinton may have been directly involved, but it is not as if it is only he and he alone who was allowing/enabling/oblivious to the flow of sensitive knowhow to the Chinese.

It gives me a good feeling blaming clinton for everything, but that doesn't change the fact that no matter how rotten the man was the level of rot present in the echelons of Government and industry do not start and stop at him. For that fact there are many things that our current president does (e.g. the whole illegal amnesty nonsense) that had Clinton done would have caused a huge commotion. The flow of sensitive information to China is going on now as strongly as it was under Clinton. This is not a person-specific problem but much deeper than that. It occurs when people are more apt to delve into ways of getting extra money/influence even when it means putting the national security of their country at risk. That is far more than a Clinton issue, no matter how good it feels blaming Clinton for anything China comes up with. Chinese money affects all greedy politicians alike.

Anyways, on the tank. To me it looks like a T-72 that has an @$$-load of ERA (explosive-reactive armor) packs all over. I would have to be a member of the Chinese infantry when an RPG hit that tank! There would be all sorts of stuff flying in the air.

Bottom line ....that tank is not even close to being a match for our Abrams (or any of the leading Western tanks).