Seems like every few months this same handwringing topic shows up.
You know, a few years back I think it was either Soldier Systems or Breach Bang Clear that ran a couple stories about the Chinese apparently sending corporate spies to Shot Show.
You really think they can't figure out how to set up a shell company and order whatever they think looks interesting?
And even anything there is surely small peas compared to what their 'shaping op' guys are likely trying to acquire.
I mean, like Marco said... it seems to me if they want it... they'll get it without our help...
Also remember that several "good guy" brands with budget lines also have them made in some various overseas countries; places where, if we should be so worried about some tech or other falling into enemy hands, such tech would be even MORE readily accessible to sitcky-fingered chicoms.
Also this is the same lame-ass argument the anti's always use for restricting everything. "B-but someone might use it against the forces of truth and justice at some point in the future...think of the children...the cops are so outgunned because civs have 'easy access' to scary guns and bullet stoppy thingies. Oh noes! Nooo, don't train civs in any sort of effective manner they might *gulp* ...know things...Don't buy that red dot from china because they might get something out of it..."
It's old.
As far as reaping the whirlwind... we already are.
Look at how this Corona-virus is already playing out; China is so interlinked with us and everyone else that if they go down, even temporarily, it means heavy economic disruptions and shortages of supplies - some of them potentially critical- everywhere. Now imagine a war...
The time for worrying about your purchases being used to fund the acquisition of tech and weapons to be used against us in the future has long sailed.
That being said... I generally refuse to buy anything from China IF I can help it. Mainly because I refuse to buy into the false economy of cheap throwaway consumerism.
However..., since the topic is red dots and cell phones, when the best a EU/US company can do is offer the SAME basic single-dot tube-design that's been around for decades, that weighs as much as a full variable scope and therefore in the era of 'lightweight everything' nobody wants to bolt on their rifle, and still costs $3-400+...
Or they offer a "budget option" in the $150-200+ range, but it sucks...
I get it; hometown labor and 'the good parts' are expensive, blah blah, etc. But we're talking BASIC RDS tech, not a long range precision scope...there's going to to be a price to pay when someone else shows up with an 85% solution that costs half the price/weight/etc, and you haven't beat them to it.
If/when cheap chinese-brand phones start making it overseas... Apple is going to get slaughtered, because half the country is already fed up with overpaying for their "features".
And yeah, they'll probably own our cell network after that. But it will be our own damn fault...
But I mean... that's just my opinion.
Last edited by Jellybean; 02-17-20 at 14:35.
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