Analyst's note:  We are seeing the results of another kind of war.  Please read on and let the facts speak for themselves as they explain a significant national security issue for the United States.  Against a "high-tech" nation like the U.S. it must be understood that faulty electronic chips supplied by a foreign nation are a "Trojan Horse-like" weapon of choice that works.  This story -- certainly not new --  is about 1,800 or more of bad Chinese electronic components now known to be in a growing number of our major weapon systems and the associated supply systems. Our war-planes, ships and communications (this includes computers) are under attack.  As far back as 2005 our gov't knew that at least 15% of the items from China were bad.

Keep reading and you will also see this type of danger from China goes well beyond electronic weapon systems.  The problem also includes contaminated items intended for use by our children as well as general food items tainted with pesticides, carcinogens, bacteria and banned drugs.  Friends simply do NOT treat friends in this fashion. The same is true of trading partners. 

Think about it ... would you knowingly soak food for intended dinner guests in raw sewage or lace it with anti-freeze or with a life threatening antibiotic?  In my book, that would be called murder.  We are talking about dealing with one of the oldest societies on earth although they are now under communist leadership ... they have to know better or they would not have survived.

When will our politically correct federal gov't, charged with our protection, come to understand that these actions are by design? We are being targeted at all levels of our society by this communist country and we still consider them a friend?  As we have said a number of times here, political correctness kills .... and the American citizen is the ultimate target in these cases. Once America falls, be it to communism or Islam, there is no where else to run.

[....] new evidence comes reports that the problem with faked Chinese electronic components being installed in U.S. military systems is far more widespread that originally thought.

The G2Bulletin recently reported a U.S. Senate investigation revealed counterfeit electronics are being found in U.S. defense systems. The parts don’t just come directly from China anymore; they also are coming from suppliers in Britain and Canada who redirect Chinese products.

The Senate panel tracked some 1,800 cases of suspected counterfeit parts through the supply chain. It found that U.S. defense contractors had purchased many of the critical components from U.S. companies who in turn obtained them from Chinese firms but never subjected them to testing before handing them over to the U.S. military as part of their contract.

The Senate unit, whose investigators were denied access to Chinese firms by Chinese authorities, said that the evidence “consistently point(s) to China as the epicenter of the global trade in counterfeits.”

To put the growing problem into perspective, Gen. Patrick O’Reilly, director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, said, “We do not want a $12 million missile defense interceptor’s reliability compromised by a $2 counterfeit part.”

Find out just what the U.S. government is doing about China’s antics, in “Bowing to Beijing.”

[....] “Counterfeit electronic parts pose long-term reliability problems, and reliability is a major driver in the overall cost of a weapon system,” the Senate report said.

The problem of coping with potentially counterfeit parts stems from a policy decision that was made years ago during the Clinton administration to give priority to off-the-shelf components as a way to reduce cost. But they also were supposed to be tested and current investigations indicate that such testing isn’t always occurring.

[....] “When suspect counterfeit parts are identified, they must be reported,” the report said. “Failing to do so allows suspect suppliers to operate with impunity and puts everyone at risk.”

The earlier article said the issue appears to be connected to “unvetted independent distributors who supply electronic parts for critical military applications.”

The problem of faked or counterfeit products from China, as well as contaminated products, are issues on which WND has reported for years.

WND columnist Phyllis Schlafly wrote last year about fake computer chips that were being purchased by the U.S. military for use in U.S. warplanes, ships and communications networks.

She wrote that malfunctions traced to the chips were being reported as early as 2005. Targeted were computers aboard U.S. F-15 fighter jets at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia.

Even at that point, officials said at least 15 percent of the spare and replacement chips the Pentagon was buying were counterfeit.

Officials in the National Intelligence Agency and the FBI expressed concern then that the fakes could let the Chinese gain access to secure systems inside the United States.

Schlafly wrote at the time: “The U.S. bought 59,000 counterfeit microchips from China for use in our warships, planes, missile and antimissile systems but fortunately were discovered they are fake in time. How many didn’t we catch?”

One Senate investigator even discovered that electronic components had been harvested from “e-waste” and sometimes were sold on public sidewalks and in public markets in China.

There also are whole factories in China with up to 15,000 people employed for the purpose of counterfeiting products.

WND has not been alone in its reporting. DefenseTech also reported on the danger: “You don’t have to be a genius to see the safety nightmare presented by fake parts on incredibly complex systems like submarines, fighter jets and tiltrotors.”

On a related issue, WND has led the way in reporting on contaminated or defective consumer products coming out of China.

During a one-month period, 17 of 28 products recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission were Chinese imports.

[....] Found to have been contaminated in recent years are Chinese products ranging from pet food to seafood intended for humans.

A WND study showed the Food and Drug Administration found products intended for human consumption tainted with pesticides, carcinogens, bacteria and banned drugs.

China was found to be raising most of its fish products – intended for the U.S. – in water contaminated with raw sewage and compensating by using dangerous drugs and chemicals, many of which are banned by the Food and Drug Administration.

Also, the deadly contaminant found in Chinese-made toothpaste – diethylene glycol – is a solvent used in antifreeze that killed 107 Americans when it was introduced in an elixir 70 years ago.

A resurgence in lead-poisoning cases in U.S. children was linked to Chinese imports – toys, makeup, glazed pottery and other products that contain significant amounts of lead and are being recalled by the CPSC on a regular basis.

Imports from China were recalled by the CPSC twice as often as products made everywhere else in the world, including the U.S., showed a WND study of 2007 government reports.

WND reported how China was shipping to the U.S. honey tainted with a potentially life-threatening antibiotic as well as adulterating exports with sugar.