Advanced Defense Systems and Military Sales to Taiwan Worries

Many military defense contractors, high-techa missile defense system, or anything else similar to
executives the Silicon Valley, our State Department,this. However, if the US does go ahead with all of
and the top brass in the military believe that thethese sales, there is a good chance the Chinese will
Chinese have been stealing high-tech and militaryhave this technology sometime in the future when
secrets for years. Therefore, anything that weTaiwan and China are reunified in some way and
develop, which we think is a secret, is already knownbecome one in the future. There's a good chance this
by the Chinese, and they are already secretlycould happen down the road without a fight due to
working on it themselves. In fact in the world ofChina's enormous military, let's say in a couple of
spies, this went on throughout the Cold War, onlydecades from now.
that time it was Russia.Should we really be concerned, because if we really
If you'll recall every time the US came out with aare concerned about China getting our secret
new fighter aircraft, a missile, a new ship, a newweapon components, then perhaps we should be
radar system, or a new aircraft bomber, the Russiansmore concerned with the 6000 spies that are all over
had one that looked almost identical. This still happensthe United States including Silicon Valley, grabbing all
today in fact the T-50, a fifth-generation stealthof our secret technologies. We need to do one of
Russian fighter plane looks a lot like the F-22 raptor.two things, we need to stop the spying, increase
If all this is taking place, then why are we so worriedmilitary intelligence and surveillance on our so-called
about selling our military equipment to our allies, andfriends, enemies, and allies who are stealing our
why are we so worried that they might spill themilitary secrets, or we need to just say forget it, and
beans and give this information to our enemies?realize they already have it all.
Indeed, the reality is the enemies probably alreadyIf we choose the latter this could be good for US
have it all and they probably already know more thandefense contractors to sell our military technology all
we think about all the high-tech weapons systemsover the world. We won't be giving it to our
we are engineering, and researching presently.adversaries or potential future enemies, because
According to an article in Taiwan News on July 30,they already have it. It seems all too often that we
2010 entitled; "The US Worries About Taiwan'sare just kidding ourselves when we think we are
Military Transfer to China," and we should be worriedsomehow protecting our secrets, as we so freely
about stuff like this. But we should also realize thatgive them away out the back door. Even though this
they probably already have all this informationis all philosophical, it does matter, it matters very
anyhow.much, and I am quite concerned. Please consider all
The Chinese don't like the idea of the United Statesthis.
selling late model fighter aircraft to Taiwan, putting in