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>You mean the country that manufacturers virtually everything Americans buy can’t handle supply chain logistics?

Yes, there's a massive difference in military logistics and shipping the latest knock off kitchen appliance via a third party. Global economic sanctions on China would be far more detrimental to China than the US. There's plenty of alternatives.

>You seriously don’t think the US has an interest in impressing the rest of the world with its military might? Why do you imagine we keep building aircraft carriers?

You're right, we should just declassify everything the second a contract is awarded and it enters development.

I'm talking about new R&D, not aircraft carriers. The US is very slow to unveil military capabilities on the global stage. Meanwhile China unveils their F-35 copy the second they can to try to "beat" the US.

> Yes, there's a massive difference in military logistics and shipping the latest knock off kitchen appliance.

Shrug. All evidence is that the Chinese have managed to create plenty of military tech. Stolen IP or not.

> You're right, we should just declassify everything the second an contract is awarded and it enters development.

This is a hell of a non sequitur.

>Shrug. All evidence is that the Chinese have managed to create plenty of military tech. Stolen IP or not.

They really haven't. There's no original R&D. It's just rushed, terrible copies.

Yes, there's a massive difference in military logistics and shipping the latest knock off kitchen appliance.

> This is a hell of a non sequitur.

I don't think this means what you think it means. Most of China's military capabilities presented on the global stage are rushed to the public eye as soon as possible. That's the point. The US has no interest in doing this because of adversarial nations like China. They have no need to prove they're ahead of the game or unveil what they're capable of, it's just accepted that they are and have private capabilities that far exceed what is publicly known (because that's the case).

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