Monday, October 17, 2022

Close the loopholes. All these military projects are supposed to be classified and our national security protected.

I refuse to believe these are open ended contracts and/or funding. No one is saying go ahead and make megadollars  by exporting American national security to China. No one is saying that.

This is no different than that wacko Chinese telecommunications outfit. This is all espionage, corporate or otherwise. The DOJ needs to step in and ask for an investigation into the wrongful dealings of these companies and the people acting as Chinese agents regardless of their American citizenship.

October 17, 2022
By Cate Cadell
 and 
Ellen Nakashima

In a new revelation (click here) by a Taiwanese news agency, the Chinese PLA has deployed its latest hypersonic cruise missile “DF-17” near the coastline aimed at Taiwan, allegedly in preparation of an invasion.

Military research groups (click here) at the leading edge of China’s hypersonics and missile programs — many on a U.S. export blacklist — are purchasing a range of specialized American technology, including products developed by firms that have received millions of dollars in grants and contracts from the Pentagon, a Washington Post investigation has found.

The advanced software products are acquired by these military organizations through private Chinese firms that sell them on despite U.S. export controls designed to prevent sales or resales to foreign entities deemed a threat to U.S. national security, the investigation shows.

Scientists who work in the sprawling network of Chinese military research academies and the companies that aid them said in interviews that American technology — such as highly specialized aeronautical engineering software — fills critical gaps in domestic technology and is key to advances in Chinese weaponry....