re: #105 Dr Lizardo

Interesting story - and somewhat confirms something I heard from a student of mine earlier today in Beijing. He loves to talk about domestic Chinese politics and though he’s never explicitly said it, he seems to have little patience with Xi Jinping and his ruling clique.

bbc.com

So, the rumor on the Chinese grapevine is that apparently, General Li Yuchao, who was in charge of missile procurement, bought foreign chips instead of homegrown. Seems the general and his deputy set up a few shell companies to fake purchases of domestically made chips and then skimmed a little profit off the top.

So now, China’s Central Military Commission has been freaking out behind the scenes for the last several weeks over the possibility, however remote, that the United States has all the data to all those missiles these two corrupt chowderheads were in charge of.

And this is a newly formed military unit that’s supposed to be an elite unit. 😄

Wow, I wonder if they watched the Russian debacle and thought, “hey, we’d better do an inventory and investigate whether what we say we have is what we really have.”