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We are militarizing China. This is systemic.
The
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review comments today on the recent manifestation of
this trend. Westinghouse builds nuclear reactors. It has
achieved a deal to build four nuclear reactors in China, with the
newest reactor technology, while agreeing to transfer that technology
to the Chinese.
U.S. taxpayers pay for the university research to
develop this know-how. U.S. tax breaks subsidize the private
research and development. U.S. taxpayers pay astounding amounts
for our defense budget to maintain world military superiority.
Then
American companies - and universities - send the technology to China,
degrading our competitiveness. Just because you have not heard of
it, does not mean it is not systemic.
Read Dr. Charles Kauffman's piece below the fold.
Read what the FBI Director recently said before Congress on Chinese espionage, the best (worst) in the world.
"But we don't want to start a trade war," say the radical free traders.
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Military Technology Transfer at the University of Michigan
C.W. Kauffman
Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2140
I have been attempting for a decade to expose my American
citizen students, who by the way may obtain security clearances,
to defense related technologies, but I am losing in this effort. I have
decided that I must come forward and discuss what is happening at
the
University of Michigan and other academic institutions which is
endangering US economic and military security. I need your help in
order to change this dangerous situation.
First, we are transferring every bit of knowledge and know how that we
have to the People's Republic of China. This has been happening for
atleast a decade. It is done by having many of their undergraduate,
graduate, and postdoctorial students, who pay out of state tuition,
here in Ann Arbor and having UM campuses staffed by UM faculty in the
PRC. It is also done by having PRC citizens serve on UM advisory/policy
making boards. As an example of this knowledge acquisition
process, the Aerospace Engineering Department recently received a
delegation from the Harbin Institute of Technology which also operates
a solid propellant ICBM factory. They were clearly on a technology
shopping trip seeking to acquire any and all information available
which would assist them in the production of better rockets which could
be launched at US targets. Our Dept. Chair was obviously complicit in
arranging this trip and knowledgable concerning the members of the
delegation. The College of Engineering even has an associate dean for
PRC affairs who is an alum of one of our sister universities in China,
and our associate dean for research is also of the same status! UM
faculty members also go on extended lecture trips discussing such
subjects as cruise missiles. It appears as if some members of the UM
Board of Regents benefit financially from UM/China ties.
Secondly, some administrators are adversely affecting the environment
for the education and training of the American students. The Aero. Eng.
Dept. at UM got a new Dept. Head in Jan 2005, Wei Shyy. In his resume
he lists the following:
Guest Professor:
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mechanics, since 2000
Northwestern Polytechnical University, since 2001
Beijing Institute of Technology, since 2003
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, since 2003
I can state that these are excellent flight related institutions in the
PRC. Beginning in 1979 as a result of the new diplomatic relations I
had my own decade of experience with the PRC.
In Congressional testimony given on 12 Oct 2001 by Gary Milhollin, of
the Wisconsin Project, he lists firms in the People's Republic of China
that are "well known parts of China's nuclear, missile, and military
complex." on that list are:
1. Beijing Institute of Technology
2. Chinese Academy of Sciences
3/ Harbin Institute of Technology.
Prof. Shyy is active in defense related research projects funded by
numerous US government agencies and attends numerous technical meetings
concerning dual use technologies as well as visiting many defense
related facilities.
In the 2006/2007 academic year I was to have taught the following
normally offered dual level courses: Internal Combustion Engines, Gas
Turbine Engines, Rockets, and Explosions, Explosives, Propellants, and
Pyrotechnics. (70% of the casualities in Iraq are due to IED's.)
These are courses with large enrollments and excellent student
evaluations. These are courses which affect the national economy and
national security, and which also get students jobs. These are real
engineering, hardware associated courses, not some mathematical mumble
jumble taught by foreign born theoreticians which someday may be
useful. Prof. Shyy has now cancelled these courses stranding many
students, many of which would have entered defense related careers.
These young engineers are urgently required by our defense
establishment because of a demographics issue, baby boomers are
retiring. His reasons vary from staff shortages to elective courses
which are only offered occasionally, etc. I also obtained external
funding to initiate an advanced military related aircraft design course
to be taught by industry experts, but the administration took this
funding away from me and prevented me from offering the course.
However, the real reason seems to be their applicability to the
economic and military strength of the American nation. The UM has not
responded kindly to my efforts to limit our assistance in the creation
of a Chinese super power. As I understand Chinese history and
philosophy it is a million ants, carrying a million grains of sand for
a millennium, thereby moving mountains. And, one may note an intensive
recruitment campaign on the part of the PRC to encourage the return to
the motherland of many skilled Chinese from America, after they have
learned our "trade secrets."
I hope that I can convince you and you can convince our politicians and
policy makers, the 2008 elections are the opportunity, that little
things are happening in academe which have enormous consequences...like
the survival of the United States. Please feel free to share this
information with those who you may believe can influence change and
return the emphasis in our institutions of higher learning to the
growth and strengthing of America, not some foreign nations. Remember
that much of their budget comes from
public, Federal and state, funds!
I am willing to share my entire, comprehensive, and continually growing Chinese files with all interested parties.
As a child of the Cold War I would note that we treated the Soviets
with a much greater concern. I can not ever imagine that I would have
been allowed by my government to teach a course at the Moscow Aviation
Institute, Bauman, or Phys Tech concerning the design of high speed
aircraft or explosives! Export controls did play a role in the collapse
of the USSR. however, under the Clinton and Bush II administrations we
have practically exported our entire American civilization westward
across the Pacific Ocean. It will be the Chinese who will bury us!
Thanks for considering this critical issue. Given more time I
would be pleased to prepare a much more comprehensive document, speak
with the press, and give testimony.
C. William Kauffman
Explosion Research and Investigation Corporation
9669 Hermitage Way
Whitmore Lake MI
48189-9624
734 426 4491 voice and fax
734 678 4491 mobile
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