On 10/01/2015 6:45 PM, Ed Huntress wrote:
On Thu, 01 Oct 2015 18:30:04 -0500, wrote:
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This is done by almost every country in the world. I spent months
studying Boeing a decade ago. The fact that they get away with a
minimum of production transfer to foreign countries is partly a result
of our Ex/Im bank. The rest is countertrade.

You wouldn't believe how much Italian wine shows up in US wine shops
because Boeing sells aircraft to Alitalia. No kidding. d8-)

I was simply pointing out that much of what countries like China do
isn't nearly so much in the spirit of trade/countertrade as it is simply
overt industrial espionage--if we've got the manufacturing on our soil
it's now quite simple (relatively, anyway) to now move that technology
to other fields. Russian PWRs somehow looked essentially identical to
the W design built in France--in fact it turned out that engineering
drawings in some cases even still had some circle-W stamps on them that
hadn't gotten covered over on copies or yet redrawn...despite, of
course, in those days USSR being on the "no-fly" zone for the technology.

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