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U.S. Defense Contractors Sending Classified Work to China?

Michael Kanellos writes on the C|Net Politics Blog:

First, China began to assemble household products for the U.S. market. Then the country graduated to notebooks. Now Chinese companies are performing research for classified systems bound for the Defense Department.

So says David Lewis, CEO of StarTech. StarTech is a high-end outsourcing firm. It has retained students and professors at Tsinghua University, China's most prestigious technical university, and contracts them out to independent companies in the West. StarTech can also retain scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. (One of the chief scientists at the CAS, Jian Mian Heng is a former HP scientist and a close relative of China's former president Jiang Zemin).

"Our largest customer is a U.S. defense contractor working on black projects for the U.S.," he said at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit.

posted by Fergie @ 7/27/2006 01:45:00 PM