China spying and the coming war over Taiwan
This is the third public exposure in two weeks of an individual who was supplying weapons information to China.
On Oct. 28, Noshir Gowadia was arrested for selling the B-2 infrared suppressing propulsion system. It was not stated to which country the actual sale took place, but it is alleged that he had marketed this information to a number of governments.
On Nov. 7, a 15 year Chinese spy ring was broken up which had stolen, among other things, information which would allow tracking the new Virginia class submarine, as well as near complete technological ripoff of the entire Aegis destroyer technologies.
Today, the BBC is reporting: Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has arrested the head of a Russian rocket technology firm on charges of selling state secrets to China.
Interesting that all of this has come out so quickly and so close together. It leads me to believe that the US either has a mole way up in China's intelligence apparatus or that there has recently been a very high placed defector.
Regardless, these announced security leaks represent an extremely serious set of compromises in the US's most expensive and most secret technologies. All of these technologies, sub tracking, destroyer countermeasures, information on the B-2's infrared trail, and missile technology would play a critical role if the US attempted to intervene against a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
This may be hugely significant.
On Oct. 28, Noshir Gowadia was arrested for selling the B-2 infrared suppressing propulsion system. It was not stated to which country the actual sale took place, but it is alleged that he had marketed this information to a number of governments.
On Nov. 7, a 15 year Chinese spy ring was broken up which had stolen, among other things, information which would allow tracking the new Virginia class submarine, as well as near complete technological ripoff of the entire Aegis destroyer technologies.
Today, the BBC is reporting: Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has arrested the head of a Russian rocket technology firm on charges of selling state secrets to China.
Interesting that all of this has come out so quickly and so close together. It leads me to believe that the US either has a mole way up in China's intelligence apparatus or that there has recently been a very high placed defector.
Regardless, these announced security leaks represent an extremely serious set of compromises in the US's most expensive and most secret technologies. All of these technologies, sub tracking, destroyer countermeasures, information on the B-2's infrared trail, and missile technology would play a critical role if the US attempted to intervene against a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
This may be hugely significant.
posted by mikevotes at
10:44 AM
2 Comments:
i like the italics. it is strange to announce it when you have security leaks.
BTW on an unrelated topic yuo might find this interesting...
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/11/08/bringing-out-the-dead/
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michael the tubthumper, at 2:30 PM
You're right, that's pretty good.
Not being in the US, you missed something very small, but monumental today. I was watching CNN(US version, not cnni) who has been notoriously gunshy(pardon the pun) about showing any injuries or bodies, anything that reflects what happens at the other end of the weapon.
Anyhow, today, I saw a piece, with a "warning this is graphic", that actually showed a young dead Iraqi male being lifted out of bomb rubble. It's the first time, I have seen anything other than minor injuries. And they actually used the phrase "collateral civilian casualties." And then they reported that women and children had died in the same Air Force bombing. This is huge in relation to the presentation of this war.
CNN has not been alone in it's self censorship.
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mikevotes, at 4:57 PM
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