Obama Sends a C-17 to a Chinese Air Show Despite Concerns Inside the Pentagon
by Royce Christyn
A lot of people are up in arms about a recent article from Defense One: The U.S. military sent a giant C-17 cargo plane to an air show in China this week as a way to strengthen its relationship with the People’s Liberation Army there, despite fears among security and policy experts that doing so puts American technology secrets in jeopardy and also risks angering an important Asia ally.
The decision to send a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III to the China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition at the Zhuhai Jinwan airport starting Tuesday is fraught for a number of reasons, defense and security officials told Defense One, noting that President Barack Obama’s arrival in the region this week to help bolster ties with Beijing points up how political factors may have outweighed security, optical and even legal concerns.
The reasons against sending the plane seemed to policy and security officials to have been enumerable. The American military jet will be participating in the air show with just two other foreign militaries in addition to China: the United Arab Emirates and Russia – with which the U.S. military severed ties after Russia’s annexation of Crimea this spring .
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The decision to send a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III to the China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition at the Zhuhai Jinwan airport starting Tuesday is fraught for a number of reasons, defense and security officials told Defense One, noting that President Barack Obama’s arrival in the region this week to help bolster ties with Beijing points up how political factors may have outweighed security, optical and even legal concerns.
The reasons against sending the plane seemed to policy and security officials to have been enumerable. The American military jet will be participating in the air show with just two other foreign militaries in addition to China: the United Arab Emirates and Russia – with which the U.S. military severed ties after Russia’s annexation of Crimea this spring .
- See more at: http://yournewswire.com/obama-sends-a-c-17-to-a-chinese-air-show-despite-concerns-inside-the-pentagon/#sthash.1cEM49ZY.vKHKowk5.dpuf