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Physicist Admits Sending Space-Related Military Secrets To China

Posted by timothy on from the he-was-young-he-needed-the-money dept.

piemcfly writes "Chinese-born physicist Shu Quan-Sheng Monday pleaded guilty before a US court to violating the Arms Export Control Act by illegally exporting American military space know-how to China. The 68-year-old naturalized US citizen, pictured here on his company profile, admitted handing over the design of fueling systems between 2003 and 2007. Also, in 2003 he illegally exported a document with the impossibly long name of 'Commercial Information, Technical Proposal and Budgetary Officer — Design, Supply, Engineering, Fabrication, Testing & Commissioning of 100m3 Liquid Hydrogen Tank and Various Special Cryogenic Pumps, Valves, Filters and Instruments.' This contained the design of liquid hydrogen tanks for space launch vehicles. He also admitted to a third charge of bribing Chinese officials to the tune of some 189,300 dollars for a French space technology firm." Here's the FBI press release regarding Shu's plea.

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  1. Re:The odds against him being caught are huge by Toll_Free · · Score: 0, Troll

    "The Brit approach was to figure out who the agents were, then keep a close eye on who they associated with so they could discover the larger spy network. They would also use these agents to unwittingly feed bogus intel back into German hands. That that was all too subtle for the swinging dick approach favored by American intel."

    Yeah, the British approach to handling WWII was working SO well before the swinging dicks came over and saved that little Island, huh?

    Telling the US populace that the British or any other .eu country did great things in comparison to the US is lamesauce. If not for the US, people in .eu would be speaking german or russian. Period.

    It's nice to say things 50+++ years later that
    don't make sense, but you cannot rewrite history.

    The US government does things the way it did to the German agents because it undermines moral. Always has, always will. And there is a LOT to say when it comes to undermining the moral of thine enemy... Age old war tactics, really.

    Both methods where necessary, and it would appear they work. Germany has nothing as far as an expansionist mentality, militarily they are fairly moot, and Russia isn't much of a world power like they used to be.

    Yeah, bag on the Americans. It's the popular thing to do.

    --Toll_Free