and allowed them to achieve parity in many areas of defense material and equipment. Their ships look like ours, their aircraft are, in many cases, almost identical to ours. They have succeeded as we have snoozed through the last ten or fifteen years under the mistaken notion that if we establish a trading relationship with them they will play nice and join the Community of Nations. I recommend for your winter reading 'Deceiving the Sky' by Bill Gertz. You will be shocked at what their plans are (they have stated them openly) and what they have accomplished during that time saving Billions as they stole our research and military designs and plans and got into production years ahead of where they would have been had they been forced to do it themselves.
If the truth be known, we would be better off not trading with them at all if the theft of Intellectual Property both Military and Commercial can not be stopped. I believe it cannot because they have consistently broken agreement after agreement with those who tried to work for them.