In 2023, the head of America’s giant military manufacturer Raytheon slammed US talk of separation from China. The company (like its rivals) has “sev­eral thou­sand sup­pli­ers in China and decoup­ling . . . is impossible,” Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes told the Financial Times. 2/15

“Think about the US$500bn of trade that goes from China to the US every year. More than 95 per cent of rare earth mater­i­als or metals come from, or are pro­cessed in, China. There is no altern­at­ive,” he added. Raytheon has about 2,000 employ­ees in China, he admitted. 3/15

In 2012, the Pentagon warned that its program to build the F-35 fighter bomber jet would come to a complete halt because US laws prohibited the use of Chinese materials—and asked the government to issue legal exemptions to allow the building program to continue. 4/15

In 2013, it was noted that the glass in US-made night vision goggles used a soft metal called lanthanum, which came from China. In 2014, Chinese items were found in the list of assembly gear for the Boeing B-1B bomber and Lockheed Martin’s F-16 military jets. 5/15

Also in 2013, CNBC reported that “chief U.S. arms buyer Frank Kendall allowed two F-35 suppliers, Northrop Grumman and Honeywell International, to use Chinese magnets for the new warplane’s radar system, landing gears and other hardware”. 6/15

“In one case, it would cost US$10.8 million and take about 25,000 man-hours to remove the Chinese-made magnets and replace them with American ones,” CNBC reported. The magnets worked fine. The ONLY issue was that they were made by Chinese people. 7/15

The US Government Accountability Office issued a report saying that the military had for years obtained the chemical Butanetriol, used in the Hellfire air-to-surface missile, from China. The US military funded the creation of an entire factory in 2014 to make its own supply. 8/15

In 2018, the US became concerned that most of its military solid rocket engines used a substance called Dechlorane. It was purchased from a Belgian company that made it using materials from China. This had to stop. 9/15

But the issue became more complex when the latest version of the substance, Dechlorane Plus, was banned globally as deadly to humans and nature. Stockholm Convention signatories agreed that the additive should be prohibited from use worldwide. 10/15

Most countries in the world signed and ratified the convention, including China – but the US chose not to do so. (The US is statistically the superpower least likely to ratify the treaties, or "rules-based order", that keep the world safe.) 11/15

Also in 2018, the US realized that 90 per cent of the world’s printed circuit boards came from mainland China and Taiwan. This triggered an uptick in the stale, decades-old US propaganda presenting the Chinese as permanently on the verge of “invading” its own land. 12/15

One New York tech company made a fortune by selling Chinese-made equipment to the US military by falsely claiming it was built domestically, according to a 2019 court case. Aventura Technologies, slipped up when Chinese writing was found in some of its circuit boards. 13/15

In September of 2022, the Pentagon had to halt deliveries of the F-35 after finding that a magnet in a component made by Honeywell International for the aircraft’s engine contained a rare cobalt and samarium alloy from China. A US govt waiver was needed. 14/15

What is extraordinary is the different mindsets of these two communities. The US has a top-down focus on using weapons to maintain global dominance. China has a bottom-up focus on development and trade to produce goods for the world, irrespective of political gamesmanship. 15/15

@NuryVittachi You can’t make up this level of stupid. I’m speechless. A rarity.

@NuryVittachi Outsourcing critical infrastructure, manufacturing, and supplies to China was stupid 20 years ago, and it's still stupid today. No forgiveness. Criminal malfeasance. No excuses. The easy path always has its end price, and the business community that encouraged this should

@NuryVittachi From Arsenal of Democracy to outsourcing our war machines to potential adversaries. What genius thought this was a good idea?

@NuryVittachi Maybe they should just not attack China and both can win?

@NuryVittachi So china is in such desperate need of cash they'll create the tools of their own destruction at a cost lower than anything else available on the planet?

@NuryVittachi Yeah, maybe suggests it's all a scripted lie. The USA also outsourced elements of it's deadly bioweapons programme to China.

@NuryVittachi Everything is outsourced :(

@NuryVittachi That interdependency is not a bug but a feature. One side is trying to double down on this paradigm whilst the other is trying to reverse it. Newsflash: we are now in a geopolitical struggle for the world order that will determine the next century. We all must wake up!

@NuryVittachi Noticing. It’s a global phenomena lately.

@NuryVittachi @ArmchairW Western military and political leaders have shown hubris over the last few generations

@NuryVittachi Love it! It's SO USA! lol

@NuryVittachi So this is nothing new. It started in the 60's...outsourcing military parts to "save money". We can thank our Fed folks then and those that followed the same reasoning.

@NuryVittachi Still China will deliver everything needed for the scripted war. Because it is scripted that way.

@NuryVittachi Yeah, but the defense contractor stock buy back was epic.

@NuryVittachi brilliant

@NuryVittachi Yay

@NuryVittachi Globalistas Jilipollas 🤬

@NuryVittachi What a flex!!! Make me a bomb that I am going to use on you. Now make more. Hahahah. Just like when we were kids and using someone’s fist to hit themselves.

@NuryVittachi What one notices here is the assumption that it will be the US attacking China. Why is the US so determined to attack China? In the past century, has China attacked any country?

@NuryVittachi @Um_papa_para_2 Israel would do the same to the U.S. when the time is right.

@NuryVittachi The US is slowly realizing it outsourced critical parts of its China war machine… to China. Fighter jets, missiles, night vision tech — all dependent on the so-called "enemy." China was never an adversary. The deep state needed one — so it manufactured it.

@NuryVittachi As Lenin said...