Like everyone else on the internet, u are entitled to ur opinion.
However, Chinese spies are caught red-handed in the U.S., and this is
not a joke.
If you want to know why these Chinese Spies want to do such a silly (if
I understood you right) and "patriotic" , but also could be extremely
profitable folly with Chinese characteristic, perhaps only the menacing
Chinese government has the answer to your question and knows their true
motives.
Slobo wrote:
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>> China's Secret War
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>> Iluustration by David M. Brinley.
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>> 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.
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>> BY SIMON COOPER
>> Published in the August, 2006 issue.
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>> 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. 7, as the city
>> was recovering from the onslaught of Hurricane Wilma two weeks earlier.
>> Moo checked into a $350-a-night room at the plush Harbor Beach Marriott
>> Resort & Spa, and now, a day after arriving in town, the Korean-born
>> businessman was ready to sign what promised to be a lucrative contract.
>> In a few days, he'd head back to Hollywood International Airport to see
>> off a plane, chartered for $140,000 to carry a special package. Moo
>> would catch a commercial flight and meet up with his cargo in Shenyang,
>> a city in northeastern China. The cargo was costing him nearly $4
>> million, but it was worth it. He would clear $1 million in profit once
>> he made the delivery to his clients, senior officials in the Chinese
>> People's Liberation Army.
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>> Moo's package was an F110-GE-129 afterburning turbofan engine, built by
>> General Electric to power America's latest F-16 fighter jet to speeds
>> greater than Mach 2 (1500 mph). Over lunch in the Marriott's restaurant,
>> 58-year-old Moo told the arms dealers who had arranged the purchase that
>> he would soon be looking for additional engines-or even an entire F-16.
>> But what the Chinese army wanted most of all was an AGM-129A, the U.S.
>> Air Force's air-launched strategic nuclear-capable cruise missile. The
>> stealth weapon, which flies at 800 miles per hour, can deliver a
>> 150-kiloton W80 warhead to a target 1800 miles away.
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>> Like everything else Moo was shopping for, the missile is guarded by at
>> least three laws forbidding its sale or the transfer of its design
>> details to foreign countries without government permission. Moo knew
>> this quite well. In addition to working as a covert agent for China, he
>> had a day job in the U.S. aerospace industry. For more than 10 years Moo
>> had been an international sales consultant for Lockheed Martin and other
>> U.S. defense companies in Taiwan. He was arguably the Taiwanese air
>> force's most critical arms broker.
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>> Scouring the Globe
>> According to U.S. counterintelligence agents, Bill Moo was one player in
>> a sprawling, decentralized network. "They are scouring the globe on
>> behalf of the Chinese government, vacuuming up every shred of technology
>> information or hardware they can get their hands on," says former FBI
>> officer Ed Appel.
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>> A press officer at the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C., calls that
>> accusation "groundless," saying that "the Chinese government does not
>> have activities in espionage in the United States." However, Appel and
>> others say that extensive Chinese spying is indicated by a sampling of
>> cases that have recently come to light in the United States.
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>> South Korean arms dealer Kwonhwan Park was sentenced in August 2005 for
>> exporting Black Hawk helicopter engines and night vision equipment to
>> China. Ting-Ih Hsu, a naturalized U.S. citizen, and Hai Lin Nee, a
>> Chinese citizen, illegally exported 25 low-noise amplifier chips that
>> have applications in the Hellfire air-to-ground missiles carried by
>> Apache and Cobra helicopters. New Jersey firms Manten Electronics and
>> Universal Technologies sold China millions of dollars' worth of
>> restricted computer chips. Eugene You-Tsai Hsu, a retiree living in Blue
>> Springs, Mo., tried to buy a critical encryption device tightly
>> controlled by the National Security Agency. Additional accused Chinese
>> operatives have been sent to prison in cases involving Generation III
>> night vision equipment and computer chips used in advanced radar and
>> navigation systems.
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>> None of the spies acted in concert, according to U.S.
>> counterintelligence sources. Like Moo, they were freelancers, operating
>> at what Appel calls a "deniable distance" from their Beijing bosses.
>> However, they did share much of their quarry--items on shopping lists
>> that included some of America's most sophisticated weaponry.
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>> Sights on Taiwan
>> On Feb. 28, 1991, the United States and its allies called a halt to
>> combat operations in the Persian Gulf War, just four days after U.S.
>> tanks started to roll across the desert, and a few weeks after launching
>> an air campaign. "The Chinese watched with dismay the ease of the U.S.
>> victory over Iraq," says Toshi Yoshihara, visiting professor at the Air
>> War College in Montgomery, Ala. In response, he says, modernizing the
>> country's vast but primitive arsenal became a top priority for Chinese
>> officials.
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>> According to U.S. deputy undersecretary of defense Richard Lawless,
>> China's sense of urgency stems partly from concern over the future of
>> Taiwan. In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
>> Lawless said that China wants "a variety of credible military options to
>> deter moves by Taiwan toward permanent separation or, if required, to
>> compel by force the integration of Taiwan" with the mainland.
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>> Since the United States has pledged to defend Taiwan, that means China
>> is seeking the ability to go toe-to-toe against America's best weaponry.
>> Some U.S. officials argue that China's ambitions go beyond Taiwan to
>> encompass the global stage.
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>> Rather than trying to address all its military shortcomings at once,
>> Yoshihara says, the Chinese government focused on obtaining "leap ahead"
>> technologies already in use by the United States. Former Chinese leader
>> Jiang Zemin called these technologies "shashoujian," translated
>> variously as "assassin's mace" or "silver bullet." They ranged from
>> advanced communications equipment to long-range missile systems.
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>> Black Hawks are workhorses, able to fight from the air, transport an
>> 11-member infantry squad or airlift the wounded. PHOTOGRAPH BY
>> REUTERS/LANDOV.
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>> Kwonhwan Park smuggled Black Hawk engines to China.
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>> Low-noise amplification chips are used with the Hellfire air-to-ground
>> missiles that arm Apache helicopters (top). The chips also have
>> nonmilitary applications. PHOTOGRAPHY BY CORBIS (APACHE).
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>> Ting-Ih Hsu and Hai Lin Nee listed the chips as inexpensive
>> "transistors" on U.S. shipping documents.
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>> A Credible Threat
>> The result of China's 15-year effort has been "the largest military
>> buildup the world has witnessed since the end of the Cold War," says
>> Richard Fisher, a China specialist for the International Assessment and
>> Strategy Center (IASC), a Virginia-based think tank. China is now termed
>> a "credible threat to other modern militaries operating in the region"
>> by the Department of Defense, despite languishing perhaps 25 years
>> behind the States in a number of areas. By next year, Chinese nuclear
>> missiles could have the capability to hit any target in the United
>> States from launch sites on mainland China. By 2008, the country is
>> expected to possess submarine-launched nuclear missiles, giving it
>> global strike capabilities.
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>> The nuclear arsenal is backed by an increasingly sophisticated navy and
>> air force. Currently on Chinese military drawing boards are plans for
>> combat aircraft, the Chengdu J-10 and Xian JH-7A fighter jets; a combat
>> helicopter, the Z-10; advanced warships; and even space-based weapons
>> designed to knock out communications satellites. U.S. observers fear
>> that much of this will be made possible by espionage.
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>> In June 2005, China began sea trials of its new Luyang II guided-missile
>> destroyers. When the armaments were unveiled, jaws clenched in the
>> Pentagon. The ships were equipped with a knockoff of the latest version
>> of the U.S. Navy's Aegis battle management system, a critical
>> command-and-control technology. The technology enables U.S.--and now
>> Chinese--forces to simultaneously attack land targets, submarines and
>> surface ships. It also runs fleet defense tactics to protect against
>> hostile planes and missiles. Federal sources insist that the only way
>> the relatively backward Chinese military could have developed such a
>> system was by copying it.
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>> Into the Arms Bazaar
>> Anthony Mangione is a quiet-spoken man in his mid-40s whose office in
>> Fort Lauderdale's federal courthouse is decorated with old newspaper
>> cuttings celebrating the D-Day landings, two fish tanks (one full, one
>> empty) and a door covered with dozens of curling Post-it notes.
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>> As the assistant special agent in charge of the Fort Lauderdale
>> department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Mangione heads
>> a team of undercover agents who have spent years infiltrating what he
>> terms a global "arms bazaar." The agents are assigned to ICE's Arms and
>> Strategic Technology Investigations (ASTI) unit, which has operations in
>> 43 countries as well as in the United States. Last year, ASTI agents
>> conducted more than 2500 investigations worldwide, many of them
>> involving China.
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>> The Moo case got under way after two arms dealers, who also work as paid
>> informants, introduced some of Mangione's undercover agents to a French
>> middleman, Maurice Serge Voros. During a phone call on Feb. 26, 2004,
>> Voros asked the agents, who were posing as arms dealers, for help
>> obtaining engines used in the U.S. Black Hawk combat helicopter. The
>> engines, manufactured by General Electric, are on the U.S. Munitions
>> List, a catalog of restricted arms and technology administered by the
>> State Department's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs. It is illegal
>> to export Munitions List items without a special government license.
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>> Over the following year, ASTI learned that Voros represented Moo, and
>> that Moo in turn was working for the People's Liberation Army. In a Dec.
>> 4, 2004, e-mail, Moo wrote that China did not want its name on any of
>> the contracts.
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>> "These cases take a long time," says Mangione. "It can be frustrating.
>> But you have to let the game play." In March 2005, Voros told the
>> undercover agents that Moo had now shifted priorities. His new top goal
>> was to buy an F-16 engine-and, said Voros, Moo had been given "the green
>> light" to make a deal.
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>> Lethal Shopping Lists
>> Moo's destination last November was Shenyang Aircraft Corp., which lies
>> a few miles from Taoxian International Airport. It's the site where, in
>> cooperation with Russia, China developed its first homegrown fighter
>> engine, the Lyulka AL-31 turbofan engine. But the Lyulka provides a
>> Pontiac Firebird level of performance compared to the Formula One-worthy
>> engine that Moo was set to deliver. U.S. officials believe that China
>> planned to copy the F-16 engine for its own prototype fighter.
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>> China has managed to "reverse-engineer some of [America's] most modern
>> rifles, cannons and guns and produce them domestically," says Larry
>> Wortzel, chairman of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review
>> Commission, which reports to Congress. However, Chinese expertise in
>> engine manufacturing has lagged, according to Wortzel, who spent 25
>> years working in military intelligence. "This is one of their biggest
>> espionage targets," he says.
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>> "There are characters out there with laundry lists of stuff like this,"
>> says Mangione. Moo's list included nuclear missiles and jet engines, and
>> also called for the "urgent procurement" of "2 to 4 sets" of a "Nuclear
>> Submarine (nuclear reactor should be one unit, no noise) including ALL
>> nuclear weapon systems." Acquiring an entire submarine might be a long
>> shot, Mangione says, but "any specs, any photos, any anything they can
>> get is more than they had before."
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>> China's efforts amount to a worldwide "market intelligence program,"
>> says former FBI analyst Paul D. Moore. "The reality is that China does
>> not practice intelligence the way God intended," he jokes. America's
>> intelligence structure arose during the Cold War to contain the Soviet
>> Union. "In our model, professional intelligence officers go out and do
>> the job," Moore says. "In China's model, anyone and everyone is a
>> potential intelligence asset."
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>> The system is chaotic and inefficient but also highly effective.
>> According to Moore and others, it relies on "guanxi," a system of social
>> networking with deep cultural significance. "The process for finding the
>> best restaurant in Seattle is exactly the same as finding out what
>> nuclear technology America has," Moore says. "You ask your friends.
>> Eventually, you're introduced to someone who can help."
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>> Guanxi could explain why Chi Mak, a naturalized American citizen who
>> spent years as a naval engineer for U.S. defense contractors, finds
>> himself in jail, accused of secretly working for the Chinese government.
>> "When someone reaches out to you," Moore says, "it can be very hard to
>> say no."
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>> According to a 42-page FBI affidavit, Mak was the lead engineer on a
>> highly sensitive U.S. naval project: the Quiet Electric Drive. The FBI
>> says it recorded Mak copying Navy secrets, and later found
>> Chinese-language wish lists in his home that included propulsion and
>> command-and-control technology.
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>> According to his lawyer, Ronald Kaye, Mak acknowledges "engaging in a
>> technology exchange" with China. But, Kaye says, none of the material
>> was classified. "It's unfortunate that so quickly people came to
>> perceive something criminal." A trial is set for this November.
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>> The Endgame
>> After a series of meetings in London and Orlando, Fla., Bill Moo, Voros
>> and the ASTI agents agreed on a price of $3.9 million for one F-16
>> engine. On Oct. 5, 2005, Moo transferred the money into a Swiss bank
>> account he controlled. One month later, he flew from Taipei to San
>> Francisco and then to Miami. By now, he was being shadowed by ASTI
>> investigators.
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>> On Nov. 8, Moo was driven to a quiet hangar in Homestead and shown his
>> prize, an F-16 engine. He had already wired $140,000 from a bank account
>> in Singapore to an account run by an ASTI front company to cover
>> shipping costs to China. Moo asked to photograph the engine but was
>> rebuffed. Nevertheless, he now authorized payment of the $3.9 million.
>> According to an ICE official, Moo told the undercover agents that after
>> he returned to China he would want to buy an entire aircraft. "Then
>> [the] customer [will] have a confidence on you, okay? So they will be
>> planning [to buy] the two-seat F-16." Moo also said he would want to
>> purchase cruise missiles.
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>> Government documents, including a federal indictment, arrest warrant and
>> criminal complaint (below), allege that Taiwan-based arms broker Bill
>> Moo secretly attempted to buy an F-16 engine for Chinese officials, and
>> planned to follow up with further purchases of airplane and missile
>> technology. Moo pleaded guilty to multiple offenses in May of this year.
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>> F-16 engine: U.S. agents say Chinese officials wanted to
>> reverse-engineer this engine. PHOTOGRAPH BY TIME LIFE PICTURES/GETTY
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