Gee. How could this have happened??
...The Washington Post team uncovered evidence that U.S. firms had sold equipment, through intermediaries, to a Chinese company they described as being 'instrumental' in the design of the 2021 test....
...One of the companies was Arizona-based Zona Technology, which sold technology through resellers to the Chinese Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA).
The academy, CAAA, was highly involved in the 2021 test.
Zona Technology has contracts for research and development services with the U.S. Air Force and received $31.6 million in grants from the Pentagon's Small Business Innovation Research program (SBIR).
Ping-Chih Chen, the chief executive of Zona Technology, said he had no knowledge of a sale of its aeroelasticity simulation software — a type of aerodynamics software — directly to CAAA, but said they had sold to another company that according to sales contracts then passed it on to CAAA.
Zona's China distributor, Jon Ding, said he licensed Zona software to a Beijing-based firm, Hifar, in 2019.
Ding told The Washington Post that he trusted his clients would not violate the rules, and so did not check whether the technology was being sold on.
'I didn't, because they promised me and I trust them, so I don't do this kind of tracking,' he said, adding that he warned Hifar not to sell to restricted groups....
He 'trusted' a Red China-based outfit, eh?
Even if the Biden Crime Family is NOT involved here, it's clear that the Department of Defense' vetting is for crap.
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