America’s Deindustrialization and China’s Rise

Manufacturing & Technology News ^ | 8/30/10 | Richard McCormack

[central_va]

The U.S. military is starting to consider how China’s economic growth and the corresponding loss of important American high-tech industries might impact future national security. The Project on National Security Reform run by U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute, an independent academic group, has put together a “Vision Working Group” that is assessing various future possible military scenarios including how to deal with a more aggressive China if the United States does not have much left of an industrial base.

[central_va]

The Chinese have already “infiltrated” much of the U.S. industrial base by targeting automotive, aerospace, metals and electronics, according to the assessment. The U.S. military has further enabled China by insisting on purchasing “off the shelf ” commercial technologies that are now made in China, and through the near elimination of MILSPEC requirements. “These changes have caused some concerned individuals within industry, government and the Pentagon to derisively call the changing state of affairs in terms of weapons systems development and procurement, along with acquisition support materiel, ‘the Wal-Mart Military,’ ” according to the vision report. “Economy and competitiveness, not security and performance, are the overarching parameters of DOD supplier participation.”

[MattinNJ]

China also owns a good chunk of Africa’s natural resources. They have truly colonized Africa and make the Europeans of old look like Boy Scouts.

[Ciexyz]

Yes but China isn’t a country of ‘evil white people’ so it’s okay if they colonize and monopolize the world’s resources. /sarcasm

[DoughtyOne]

I predicted this 20 years ago.

[central_va]

Stevie Wonder could see this coming.

[DoughtyOne]

I hear ha...

[Wolfie]

To these military leaders: Right behind you is the barn. That small dot on the horizon? The horse.

[pgkdan]

I predicted this 20 years ago.

Me too. Where were these guys when Ross Perot was debating NAFTA?

[DoughtyOne]

Where were they when we all knew our airliners could be used as WMDs?

[veracious]

Duh?!

[KittyKares]

The article was written in 2010. I wonder how much worse the situation is now.

[central_va]

ping

[central_va]

The article was written in 2010. I wonder how much worse the situation is now.

The sad score as of this year; 55,000 factories have been offshored since 2002 and we lost 12,000,000 jobs. That is just the factory jobs themselves not all the ancillary jobs that they create and support too.