ElNono
03-28-2012, 11:43 PM
"The Government Accountability Office, through a fictitious company, recently requisitioned parts from China in order to determine if the Chinese government was living up to its promises of battling counterfeit parts. The report from the GAO found that '334 of 396 vendors who offered to sell parts to the fictitious company were from China (http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/26/usa-china-weapons-idUSL2E8EQBM020120326)' and that 'all 16 parts eventually purchased by the fake company came from 13 China-based vendors and all were determined by an independent testing laboratory to be counterfeit (http://defensetech.org/2012/03/28/gao-buys-fake-submarine-parts-from-china/).' The parts requested were supposedly for use in F-15s, MV-22 Ospreys, and nuclear submarines, and were requested as new parts. The report (http://www.gao.gov/assets/590/588737.pdf) (PDF) also says that in the past three years, over one million counterfeit parts came from Chinese companies. This stands in sharp contrast to the Chinese government's promise to clamp down on the production of counterfeit parts in China."