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Article: Chinese rockets' red glare is as blinding as free-trade fanaticism.(free-trade and national security in conflict)(Column)(Brief Article)
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- Insight on the News
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- June 22, 1998
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Astrict interpretation of patriotism [is] injurious to business," wrote famed artillery-maker Alfred Krupp. True to his word, Krupp sold to both sides in the Franco-Prussian war.
On the eve of World War I, Krupp's firm was filling "Russian orders for the latest artillery pieces and French orders for specially designed anti-Zeppelin guns while soliciting British orders for warships. In the 1880s, Hiram Maxim sold the `Maxim gun' the first modern machine gun, to his adopted homeland of Britain and to its future enemies, the Boers of South Africa and the German Reich."
So observes defense writer Andrew Moravcsik, making a point familiar to Americans who ...