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Very true. Whites in particular have historically been the most violent in human history when looking at War counts and Death tolls. However, things can change
by ChrisNorstrom 13y ago
Very true. Whites in particular have historically been the most violent in human history when looking at War counts and Death tolls. However, things can change very quickly.
This issue however, is NOT about China's military threat (they're peaceful and mind their own business which I respect a lot). China has a tendency to rip off / steal other people's IP, call it "Chinese Innovation" and turn around to sell it as their own on the international market. They've done this with High Speed Rail technology, beginning to do it with Maglev technology, and most recently..... Drones. They've reverse engineered drones to bypass decades of research (which they openly admit to) and are selling them. Which is probably why the US wants to keep them out of anything related to Aerospace.
Even Elon Musk knows this which is why he's avoiding patents. The Chinese will just work around them, repatent and call it "Chinese Innovation".
http://www.benzinga.com/news/13/03/3451756/is-elon-musks-spacex-protected-without-patents http://www.benzinga.com/news/13/03/3451756/is-elon-musks-spa...
"if we published patents, it would be farcical, because the Chinese would just use them as a recipe book." - Elon Musk
Their copy-cat culture is starting to cost them.
- papaf 13y agoThanks for the thoughtful reply. However, I still cannot see why this a national security problem. The ban on researchers attending conferences is for "national security" reasons. That's war talk.
- TsiCClawOfLight 13y agoThe (US) government is run by the top 1%. Everything is about money.
- ChrisNorstrom 13y agoThe US does that all the time. "National Security" is code word for "we don't want to get into the reasons".