How GE Is Arming China to Compete With Boeing — and America

General Electric (GE)
plans to sell its aircraft electronics to Chinese companies, and if you
don't have a problem with that, maybe you should. After all, China just
flight-tested a prototype stealth fighter (pictured), it continues to
build up its military — and we can only hope it's not planning to
expand its territory in ways that threaten the U.S.

But if China does decide to get aggressive with the U.S., GE will have
provided it with the aircraft technology it will be using.

According to The New York Times,
GE is signing a deal to sell avionics technology — electronics that
control an aircraft's basic in-flight operations — to Commercial
Aircraft Corp. of China (CACC), which aspires to build commercial and
military aircraft. GE will do this through a joint venture with a
Chinese company, Aviation Industry Corp. of China (Avic). Avic makes
avionics for CACC and for China's military — including its stealth
fighter.

Sure, GE is based in the U.S., but that doesn't mean its shareholders
expect it to be loyal to U.S. interests. Still, selling technology it
developed for U.S. companies like Boeing 
to Boeing's Chinese competitors — which are trying to build a
competing aircraft company — may be going too far. The question facing
American policymakers is how to keep GE from crossing the line before
it's too late.

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I keep wondering what the Japanese think about the rise of China's military/industrial strength.  I imagine that there is a lot of trade that goes on between the two countries; with Japan benefiting from the slave labor Chinese wages-but probably not a lot of trust.

Chairman Mao had the US pegged correctly as a "paper tiger."  I have never researched to learn if he ever had anything to say about post WWII Japan….I would imagine that the Chinese have a healthy respect  (out of fear) for Japan.  Ah-so.