China Is Hiding Its Counterfeit Electronics Parts

[Donnachaidh]

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2011/06/14/china-hiding-its-counterfeit-electronics-parts/

The Senate Armed Services Committee is trying to investigate how allegedly counterfeit parts get into the military supply chain. But China won’t give visas–or promise freedom of movement without minders–to its investigators.

Two key US senators on Tuesday accused China of hampering a congressional probe into how counterfeit electronics end up in the US military supply chain by denying entry visas to investigators.



And the senators said China had required that government minders attend any interviews conducted in China as part of the investigation, which was announced in March, but agreed that request was a “non-starter.”

Levin and McCain said that they had worked for weeks to get entry visas for staff to visit the city of Shenzhen in Guangdong province, which they described as the epicenter of the fake parts trade based on US government reports.

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[DJ13]

1. Why dont they investigate the US contractors who supplied the parts?

It doesnt matter where those parts were made, it matters that a contractor cut corners and bought from China.

[MrScorpio]

2. Exactamundo nt

[RC]

3. Why are we importing anything for the military?

If we are going around antagonizing other countries, then doesn't it stand to reason we should be making our own parts for our war toys?
Stupid, greedy, war profiteering Republicans.

[arikara]

4. Halliburton

again.

[Vehl]

5. This is why India Banned Chinese Telecommunication Equipment ...cos they supposedly had backdoors

because they supposedly found backdoors built into equipment Chinese companies were trying to sell..which would have allowed the Chinese to eavesdrop. I'm at a loss to understand why the American government is sourcing military equipment from China.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2010/04/30/india-china-spyware.html

India bans Chinese telecom equipment

India has banned telecom equipment from China citing national security reasons, heightening trade tensions between the two Asian economic giants.

In a recent order, the government has told mobile operators not to import any network equipment manufactured by Chinese vendors such as Huawei and ZTE.

Indian officials say the ban was prompted by concerns Chinese telecom equipment could have spyware or malicious software — known as "malware" — embedded in it which could give Chinese intelligence agencies access to telecom networks in India.