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Comment by stogot | original | Why jet engines aren't made in China
[−]stogot · 2026-07-02 Thu 01:55 UTC · link
“ well kept under lock in key in the west”

You’re joking. These have been put on network drives since early 2000s and CCP has hacked and exfil them

[−]seanmcdirmid · 2026-07-02 Thu 02:19 UTC · link
It turns out that they’ve really been able to keep the material sciences data under wraps. It is also really hard to reverse engineer from end products. Same with the C919.
[−]htrp · 2026-07-02 Thu 02:45 UTC · link
the people who do a good chunk of materials science research have last names like wang, li , zhang

you don't exactly need to hack a network drive when you can just hire the guy who came up with it

[−]thaumasiotes · 2026-07-02 Thu 06:19 UTC · link
> have last names like wang, li , zhang

It's not clear to me whether you already knew that those three names in particular are idiomatic in China as the names of 'random' people. 张三，李四，王五.

(Traditionally 李 was the most common surname in China. Last I heard it had been overtaken by 王.)

I don't know who random guys One and Two are.

[−]AussieWog93 · 2026-07-02 Thu 07:28 UTC · link
Then where are the jet engines?