don't know. …But after Wen Ho Lee's incident with the Gov in which a "mishanding" of documents became a espionage case and smear campaign by the Fed to make an "example" of him, I vowed NEVER to work for a defense company or any company that requires handling top secret military/energy stuff.
I don't care how bad the economy is. It started out as a boycott among a group of people back at the time, but it's more of a "I don't want to be ever be falsely accused of spying, just because I look and talk chinese" thing.
Not to mention that defense companies pay is typically crap and run often run by big bureacrats. I have a friend that is a director level guy at a big defense company that constantly talks about how his crappy hours, the crappy games he has to play, and hearing him talk about his comps- I'd have to say it does sound pretty crappy. I sort of feel sorry for him- i know folks 2 levels below him that don't have to deal with actually running a department that from a compensation perspective are more or less equivalent.
As far as China is concerned, you really can't play hardball with someone that more or less functions as your banker that you borrow from. I hear all the rhetoric about "getting tough on china", as clinton seems to like to throw around a bit. Uh, it's sort of a problem when just about every thing you buy at walmart and everywhere else from china, and when you have a country that artificially pegs their currency to the USD. Doesn't matter how much USD devalues, the Won is still more/less pegged to the dollar.
