Tai Ming Cheung Quoted in The Financial Times
Gates warns over Chinese stealth aircraft
01/09/2011
Daniel Dombey,
The Financial Times
Robert Gates, US defence secretary, said Washington will respond to Beijing’s development of a new stealth aircraft and long range anti-ship missiles, sounding a warning note at the start of a trip to China.
Speaking before he arrived in Beijing on Sunday night for a visit intended to bolster relations Mr Gates also acknowledged that US intelligence had failed fully to anticipate China’s development of the new J-20 aircraft, photographs of which appeared on the internet last week.
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Tai Ming Cheung is an associate research scientist at IGCC. He is in charge of the institute’s Minerva project "The Evolving Relationship Between Technology and National Security in China: Innovation, Defense Transformation, and China’s Place in the Global Technology Order." This five-year research and training program examining China’s efforts to become a world-class science and technology power is funded by the U.S. Department of Defense.
