Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (75366)	3/1/2000 12:05:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 108807

Strangely, my first cold war memory is of Chinese threats, not Russian. "We will conquer you in 10 years" or something, I was 4 or 5 and it really worried me. The 24 ICBMs is important to keep in mind. China hasn't, to date, shown much interest in the kind of military build up that put them anywhere near us, in either conventional or nuclear arms. It would involve a lot more that stealing some engineering, more like developing whole new industries, and taking a lot of resources, both intellectual and capital, away from more economically productive endeavors. Personally, I'm dubious that stealing engineering would be the right way to fight that battle anyway, if they wanted to fight it. They'd have to build production capability from scratch, regardless. They'd be a lot better off doing new engineering based on today's cheap commodity electronics, instead of trying to duplicate old U.S. technology that was really expensive when it was designed and is probably a lot more expensive to reproduce now. The Chinese may not be nice, but I don't think they're dumb, neither their engineers, nor their capitalists, nor their government. It's always important to consider the source, too. Cheers, Dan.