[HighRoadToChina]

See Post #7 above for link to report.

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

"Over the course of the next decade the country will spend billions to counter U.S. advances in warfare technology, the report states."

From all that I've read lately, I had the impression that from high quality magnets to steel to semiconductors, they pretty much are supplying DoD.
Rumsfeld told Bush to veto the 65% Buy American bill that Duncan Hunter proposed.
Even if China has only 2nd and 3rd generation stuff, it is still effective.
We seem to be making it easy for them to keep up, even paying them to catch up.

[Dr. Marten]

"Taiwan, located off the coast of mainland China, claimed independence from the communist country in 1949"

Now there is a line of B.S. that runs a mile long.

I trust that I don't need to repeat the fact that Taiwan has never belonged to Mainland China at any moment during modern times. How does one sovereign country declare independence from a nation that it never belonged to?