Sunday, March 19, 2017

The Chinese Want The American Military's Technological Edge

A J-31 stealth fighter has its test flight ahead of the 10th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai, south China's Guangdong Province, Nov. 10, 2014. (Xinhua/Liu Dawei)

CNBC: Espionage risk to US heightened as China's military presses its domestic tech firms

China is taking a page from the Pentagon's playbook under the Obama administration: it's partnering with tech companies to develop more cutting-edge weapons.

But China's innovation-focused strategy could elevate the espionage risk to the U.S.

Ironically, this new threat emerges as the Trump administration is expected to slow its outreach to the tech firms.

Over the weekend, Chinese President Xi Jinping made an address to the country's national legislature where he urged the People's Liberation Army "to speed up" the application of advanced technologies, according to the Chinese military's official web portal. Jinping sees "integrated military and civilian development" as one of the drivers of science-tech innovation and key to upgrading China's military capabilities.

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WNU Editor: I suspect that the Chinese have been doing this form of spying/espionage for a very long time, and they do need to be pressured by their central government to re-double their efforts.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm curious why more isn't done to detect and prevent this kind of espionage in the U.S. Trump needs to get on this.

RussInSoCal said...

The US would do well to initiate a little more scrutiny on the Chinese "students" at Cal Tech and other Universities involved in sensitive research.

Jac said...

Copying is always easier than discovering, but that's making the copier always behind the discoverer. What would be alarming is to find that Chinese are more creative than American and it would be a different story.

Anonymous said...

Lol, just look at the cardboard cutout ahahahah

fazman said...

What difference does it make since copied platforms also stay operational for decades.
Copying and reverse engineering is the smart way.

fazman said...

What difference does it make since copied platforms also stay operational for decades.
Copying and reverse engineering is the smart way.