Selling National Security by Irwin M. Stelzer
THE CHINESE ANNOUNCED on Saturday that they would be buying into the company that provides the Pentagon with technology to prevent cyber-attacks--of the sort the Chinese launched a few weeks ago. Why worry? We are all free traders now, according the president and his secretary of the Treasury--all except misguided Democrats, trade unions, displaced workers, and those who worry about our national security.
True, free trade is great--when dealing with other parties who are in it for the same thing--to make money. But that ain't the name of the game these days. Now we have a company that must answer to the Chinese government picking up a piece of an American company, 3Com, that--get this--makes "intrusion prevention" technology that helps the Defense Department, among other clients, protect itself from hackers.
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