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> That's what China seems to have done here too No, it wasn't. America intentionally established Operation Paperclip with the intention of recruiting German sc
by w1ntermute 13y ago
> That's what China seems to have done here too
No, it wasn't. America intentionally established Operation Paperclip with the intention of recruiting German scientists. The Chinese didn't have to do anything to get Qian (and most likely weren't even thinking about space in 1950) - America just handed him to them, thanks to the US government's enormous stupidity.