It sounds like a third-rate thriller designed to provoke alarmists’ worst fears about China’s efforts to exploit western technology.
An arm of a large US corporation, more focused on profit than wider ethics, sells sensitive technology – software to control helicopter engines – to China. China’s aerospace industry then goes on to acquire a decisive military capability that it previously lacked: the ability to build modern attack helicopters.
Yet, rather than emerging from a scriptwriter, these events were described last Thursday in a courtroom in Bridgeport, Connecticut, as a subsidiary of one of the US’s largest defence contractors pleaded guilty to illegally exporting vital technology behind China’s new Z10 attack helicopter.
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