President Xi Jinping of China, front row center, with senior technology company executives at a conference held at Microsoft in Redmond, Wash., in September. Credit Pool photo by Ted S. Warren, via Reuters
New York Times: U.S. Tech Giants May Blur National Security Boundaries in China Deals
HONG KONG — One Chinese technology company receives crucial technical guidance from a former People’s Liberation Army rear admiral. Another company developed the electronics on China’s first atomic bomb. A third sells technology to China’s air-to-air missile research academy.
Their ties to the Chinese military run deep, and they all have something else in common: Each Chinese company counts one of America’s tech giants — IBM, Cisco Systems or Microsoft — as a partner.
Such links, which are generally not well publicized, are now at the center of a debate among some in the American defense community, including former United States military officials, analysts and others. While the cross-border partnerships, under which American tech companies share, license or jointly develop advanced technologies with Chinese counterparts, are a growth area for business, security experts are increasingly questioning whether the deals harm United States national security.
WNU Editor: This debate should have been done 4 - 5 years ago .... but the U.S. government and these tech companies are not interested .... they only see the dollar signs. And as to the claim that these tech transfers are harming national security .... it is not a claim, it is a fact. The chips in U.S. military tech are the same chips that the Chinese military now uses.
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WNU Editor - If you read the book Ghost Fleet, then you know how big of a problem this is for the US military.
I have not read the book yet Stefan. The publisher did send me a copy a few months ago. I will be reading it when I go on vacation during Christmas.
so the Chinese will have Russian airframes and engines with U.S electronics?
All components should be made in the U.S.
That said.
If there is a limit to physics, then there is a limit to tech. If we reach it or a temporary plateau, the edge will be social cohesion and just dealings.
" but the U.S. government and these tech companies are not interested .... they only see the dollar signs"
But if the companies do not repatriate the profits, then the U.S. treasury does not see the $$$.
So maybe only money being seen by the government is the money the politicians are getting donations from those companies. That is the money that concerns government officials/politicians
That would make them traitors.
WNU Editor,
Horse/ Barn Door,
Anzino,
The profits come in the form of paying $0.95 an hour with no benifits for design, fab and assembly in China,
VS. $15.00 plus benifits and up for the same work in the U.S.
"That would make them traitors."
Not to their class.
Traitors to the other classes or just plain enemies.
Anzino,
When Nixon sabotaged the Paris peace talks , resulting in another 50,000 dead US servicemen and 1.7 million dead Cambodians, Laos and Vietnamese, he got two terms.
Reagan got elected pulling the same stunt.
High Crimes and Treason in the U.S. Makes you set for life, makes you a billionaire, and it's " bipartisan".
Both Parties appreciate " scamming the rubes".
Peace talks with Communists is almost as good as Peace Talks with Muslims
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