China doesn’t need our IP

China doesn’t need US intellectual property. China produces engineers that are fully capable of building on what they already stole and technology is advanced with every design cycle, so what China stole is already out-of-date.

China has been identifying their most capable citizens for centuries. But central planning results in expensive errors. In the 1980s, The PRC identified their best Engineers and sent them to Chinese Universities to get a BSEE-Ballistics Math Degree to design their Space Program, but the Space Program stalled and these students came to the US to get their MSEE degrees. We recruited these MSEE Engineers from US campuses on H1b visas.

They formed the Software Engineering group at Firearms Training Systems to develop software for the FATS weapons simulator.  They quickly got our software development program moving forward. They were happy to work day and night, applied their considerable skills and were well paid. They eventually learned English, are still there and are running software engineering. Most had MS Math degrees in addition to their MSEE degrees. All got “green cards” and became US citizens. Some are now approaching 30 years of service.

If there are better Engineers than the Chinese, it would be Japanese Engineers who developed the Hybrid Prius.

If China simply wants to advance through industrial espionage, they are missing a bet. The only thing they lack is the ability to partner and that won’t improve if they continue to steal. What they can learn in the US is not always helpful. The US is known for innovation, but we off-shored our manufacturing and we were left to innovate nonsense.

US companies are developing technologies with limited application and no strategic value. There is limited application in electric cars, self-driving cars, video games, social media, bigger smartphones, data warehousing for advertising, toys, games and unnecessary fads and scams.

The US now needs to start focusing on production automation to increase throughput and deliver products that are necessary like cheaper cars, cheaper houses, better electronics, better appliances and necessary durable goods. This is done by working with the products and processes.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader