China sought US sub secrets to conquer Taiwan: US prosecutor

Source: Agence France-Presse

China sought US sub secrets to conquer Taiwan: US prosecutor

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LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Prosecutors in the trial of US engineer Chi Mak
said Wednesday that secret US submarine technology information he had
tried to smuggle to China was to help it take control of Taiwan.

Assistant US attorney Greg Staples said the sensitive data on a computer
disk Mak tried to provide China through his brother included information
on under-development Quiet Electric Drive technology to make submarines
silent.

China's navy "is supportive of the re-taking of Taiwan (and) the chief
impediment to retaking Taiwan is the 7th fleet of the US Navy," Staples
said as the trial got underway.

The Chinese navy particularly needs to be able to find US submarines,
he said.

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It would take more than subs to do it, and I would think that finding US subs was a worthy purpose in its own right from a Chinese Naval point of view.