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Stealhead · 07-27-11, 03:33 PM

I read some place that the Cultural Revolution time period had very negative effects on many research and development programs in China.Obviously they did focus on some things like nuclear weapons(really only making an H-bomb and they had the "fastest" A-bomb to H-bomb development program big whoop) but other vital programs basically stagnated.That is why China is behind when it comes to advanced technology they did not have much development during the 60's and 70's a time period where the West and Russia was rapidly developing new military technologies.

Now they are trying to develop more modern weapons but they do not have much institutional know how like the US has from many years of development on top of that it is very clear that China has a problem with corruption factory owners knowingly selling inferior and even dangerous products occurs all the time they have had people sell baby formula that was known to be poisoned and it killed Chinese babies guess that factory owner got a 7.62x39mm to dome.If some are willing sell poisoned foods to their own nation there must be others that will sell inferior materials to their own military.For me that makes China's military capabilities questionable at best.

07-27-11, 03:33 PM	#2
Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	I read some place that the Cultural Revolution time period had very negative effects on many research and development programs in China.Obviously they did focus on some things like nuclear weapons(really only making an H-bomb and they had the "fastest" A-bomb to H-bomb development program big whoop) but other vital programs basically stagnated.That is why China is behind when it comes to advanced technology they did not have much development during the 60's and 70's a time period where the West and Russia was rapidly developing new military technologies. Now they are trying to develop more modern weapons but they do not have much institutional know how like the US has from many years of development on top of that it is very clear that China has a problem with corruption factory owners knowingly selling inferior and even dangerous products occurs all the time they have had people sell baby formula that was known to be poisoned and it killed Chinese babies guess that factory owner got a 7.62x39mm to dome.If some are willing sell poisoned foods to their own nation there must be others that will sell inferior materials to their own military.For me that makes China's military capabilities questionable at best.