Images have emerged of what appears to be an intact AH-64D Apache helicopter, one of America's most successful and deadliest assault weapons, in China. Daily Mail
USNI News: China’s Military Built with Cloned Weapons
Historically, China has been a great innovator contributing inventions such as gunpowder, paper and the compass to human advancement. However, China has earned an international reputation in recent decades as being the home of a prolific copycat culture.
The Chinese have become proficient at cloning products ranging from designer handbags and the latest smartphones to movies and alcoholic beverages. Fake Apple stores, counterfeit KFC restaurants and imitation IKEA big-box outlets dot the Chinese landscape. They have even built entire replica European towns.
Some Western observers believe this cultural attitude towards imitation is rooted in Confucianism where followers traditionally learned by replicating masterworks and then tried to improve upon them.
WNU Editor: I will use a personal example on how the Chinese clone/imitate products that have been researched and developed in the West. When I was based in China in the 1980s I was brought to a Nike factory in Fujian on a tour .... during the daytime they manufactured Nike products .... but as I was told in the evening they manufactured the same products but under a different name. Same product .... but different brand names. Flash forward to today .... I know when a U.S. company like Applied Materials (who is also the world's largest chip maker) invests to build a plant in China ..... Applied Materials Sees Bright Future in China (Bloomberg) .... they are doing it to produce chips at a cheaper price and to have access tot he Chinese market, But for the Chinese .... they now have access to America's newest chip designs and manufacturing techniques. Trust me on this one .... the chips that are being used in U.S. military systems are the same chips that the Chinese will have in theirs .... and done knowingly by the U.S.. So who is to blame for China's military being built with cloned weapons .... that is an easy question to answer .... us. We elect the politicians who make this happen.
Update: Here is a revealing post on China (maybe) cloning the U.S. AH-64D Apache helicopter .... Has China cloned the Apache? Images emerge showing lookalike of America's deadliest assault helicopter being transported on the back of a truck (Daily Mail).
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It'll work for 6 months then you'll have to send it back....hopefully under warranty.
WNU Editor,
You might want to read up on the early history of the British textile industry, ( the foundation stone of the Industrial Revolution), which was based on ripped off copies of the Mubai Weavers Guild's looms,
Or the Post- Colonial US textile industry which was based on wooden copies of British metal looms.
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