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China's Secret War

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Iluustration by David M. Brinley.

A spate of recent spying cases opens the lid on China's aggressive
military buildup. What's most troubling: It is based largely on U.S.
technology.

BY SIMON COOPER
Published in the August, 2006 issue.

On a hot Florida day late in 2005, Ko-Suen "Bill" Moo was preparing for
the endgame of a covert operation he'd been orchestrating for nearly two
years. He had arrived in Fort Lauderdale at 5 am on Nov...

China has access to Pakistan's fighter air-crafts , which are
from the USA .

the US has given Pakistan F-16 fighter air-carfts , and the
Chinese can look at the F-16 in Pakistan, so why should the Chinese
want to buy F-16 engine ?

Chinese military has ordered 300 units of AL-31 Lyulka from the
Russian manufacturer ,
so what is the fuzz about the F-16 engine from GE.

even Roll-Royce from the UK can produce better jet engines than
the GE of America .

the Chinese can always buy from Roll Royce .

the Chinese can buy from the French Thales for the naval
technologies .

the French sold Pielstick diesel engines to the Chinese navy .

the Ukrainians sold steam turbine engines to the Chinese Navy .
the Chinese is now building new diesel subs modelling on the
French diesel sub, Scorphene which the Pakistani are building,
and which the Indians are buying .

Micky Wong wrote:

Slobo wrote:

That depends on what you mean by looking. There's a big difference
between watching a jet engine perform in an air show in pakistan
and removing a jet engine from a fighter jet to dissembling and
reverse engineered.