Commentary
It is a source of constant puzzlement and even growing anger that the United States–both the federal government and industry—continues to help the Chinese regime build up its high-tech sectors. The United States knows full well that China treats it as an adversary. Yet we continue to sell the rope with which to hang ourselves.
Case in point: As China struggles to build a globally competitive commercial airliner industry—and “struggles” is the operative word here—the United States (and other Western countries) have been happy to help out. The Chinese currently have two passenger jets under development, the 100-seat ARJ21 and the 170-seat C919; both of these planes rely overwhelmingly on Western systems, subsystems, and technologies. General Electric supplies the engines, Rockwell Collins the avionics, and Goodrich and Liebherr (a German-Swiss company) the landing gear….