China Top Source Of Counterfeit U.S. Military Electronics (Bloomberg)

Editor`s note: Should it really be a surprise to anyone, that we are a society where we want everything on the cheap nowadays - goods and labor chiefly and China being the top world exported of cheap manufactured goods would supply counterfeit or 'aftermarket' parts for the U.S. military war machines and supply chains. Its the U.S. government and the lobbyist-controlled Congress who basically sent all the jobs and factories to the East while leaving the once mighty U.S. impotent in industrial manufacturing. So should we be so quick to blame China for our worries, where the government hands them billions of dollars worth of oil and gas concessions, approves the increased global Chinese state-media influence by allowing recent take over of AMC Theaters and giving them direct access to our Treasury to buy our debt? And the list goes on and on but these are just the recent developments in the past week and more will come surely as while our U.S. government touts and vilifies the Chinese government in every shape and form. - RA (Rubaiat`s Blog)


Bloomberg News
By Tony Capaccio
May 21, 2012

China’s government has failed to curb manufacturing of counterfeit military electronic parts by Chinese companies that are the “dominant source” of fakes in the U.S. defense supply chain, a Senate investigation found.

The U.S. Air Force suspended in January a Shenzhen, China- based company from supplying parts to U.S. contractors after it sold about 84,000 suspect components, many of them installed on U.S. aircraft, according to an example cited in the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee report released yesterday.

The panel’s report outlines the results of a 14-month investigation disclosing dozens of examples of suspected counterfeit electronic parts. Saying U.S. companies and the military services didn’t crack down on abuses, the committee said the defense industry “routinely failed to report cases of suspect counterfeit parts, putting the integrity of the supply chain at risk.”

The report didn’t cite any examples of counterfeit parts causing damage such as lives lost or planes that crashed.

The committee said it found “overwhelming and undeniable evidence to support” the conclusion that China hasn’t taken steps to stop operations “that are carried out openly in that country...”

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