Lin Qiangsheng pondered whether to report this matter or not, if he exposed this big thing, what good would it do to him?

First of all, whether it is the CIA or the FBI, they will put an important amount of energy on the Toshiba incident, and the equipment they own has become a small case, after all, it is not a large equipment that can process propellers, and their attention to the high-precision machining centers they own will be reduced a lot!

Again, even if the Americans knew that he had obtained these devices, Lin Qiangsheng could completely shift the responsibility to others, and it would be difficult for the Americans to collect evidence of his personal involvement. He can't do anything about Lin Qiangsheng, he believes that the Americans are also very tricky for this kind of powerless and thankless thing. Then he took out the Japanese and the Soviets and threw them at the Americans, then his affairs would probably be pressed by the American intelligence agencies.

Lin Qiangsheng just thought of this possibility, I don't know if it's his fantasy, anyway, people are always willing to think about the good!

Immediately afterwards, Lin Qiangsheng thought about whether he could succeed in doing this, especially in the current international environment.

The 70s have passed, when the United States and the Soviet Union were relatively in a period of peaceful coexistence. Relations between the two blocs were relatively stable during that period, from the post-Khrushchev theory of economic competition to the moderate development of Brezhnev, the relations between NATO and the Soviet Union developed on a positive side, and the United States and European countries also relaxed restrictions on Soviet technology exports during that period.

However, with the beginning of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the international environment entered a period of new Cold War, the Soviet Union's expansionism rose, and the Soviet Union's economic strength and military strength made great progress through economic development in the 70s.

The United States and NATO countries also re-viewed their relations with the Soviet Union, although not to the point of sabre-rattling during this period. However, the United States and NATO were also quite wary of the Soviet Union's ambitions. In the political turmoil in Eastern Europe, the Middle East battlefield, the war in East Africa, and the various hot spots in Afghanistan, the political and military competition between the two sides is heating up!

From 79 onwards, the United States demanded that Batumi take seriously its level of control, and that other European countries also severely restricted their exports of technical equipment to GCD countries, especially the Soviet Union, and the previously relatively relaxed environment was re-entrenched.

Moreover, the U.S. government is actively considering linking the trade embargo directly to import sanctions and tightening restrictions on the flow of U.S. technology to Batumi member states.

On the other hand, the Soviet Union did not import more than five CNC machine tools from Japan in 83. According to Batumi regulations, European and American countries are not allowed to export CNC machine tools with 2 axes and a processing capacity of more than 10 feet in diameter to the Soviet Union. But back in 78 it imported 5-axis CNC machining equipment through Norway and Japan, and back then the USSR established a secret trading channel with Norway!

So as soon as this matter came out, it immediately became a multinational issue between Japan, Norway, and the Soviet Union.

In recent years, however, there have always been many contradictions between the United States and Japan due to the huge trade deficit, and although the conflicts in US-Japan economic relations have shifted from light industry to heavy industry, from textiles to steel and color televisions, in the process of resolving the above-mentioned contradictions, the Japanese Government has always adopted a relatively cooperative attitude and avoided direct confrontation with the United States. However, in the 80s, both the U.S.-Soviet and U.S.-Japan relations. are showing great changes.

From the perspective of Japan-US relations, politically, the Japanese and US governments have emphasized the maintenance and development of "partnerships"; Economically, there are two tendencies: interdependence and competition.

However, in the 80s, the economic frictions between Japan and the United States continued to escalate, and the contradictions between the two sides became increasingly acute around the issue of restrictions on the export of Japanese steel, machine tools, automobiles, and high-tech products to the United States.

In 1983, the U.S. Government Department of Commerce submitted a report that in five high-tech fields. At present, the United States still maintains a leading position only in the field of aircraft construction and aerospace technology. In the fields of semiconductor technology, optical fiber technology, and intelligent machinery technology, it lags behind Japan!

The relative decline of the level of science and technology in the United States has inevitably made the United States more and more dependent on Japan in terms of advanced military technology. Forty percent of the advanced electronic components in U.S. weapons systems come from Japan.

Taking the export of semiconductor products as an example, in November 1982, the United States and Japan concluded three semiconductor agreements on the basis of repeated negotiations on the two major themes of dumping and market share. During the negotiations, the United States even wielded the big stick of anti-dumping and Section 301 to threaten retaliatory measures. However. The semiconductor trade friction between the United States and Japan has not been alleviated as a result. The fundamental reason for this is that the strategic significance of the semiconductor industry makes it difficult to reconcile the contradictions between the United States and Japan in pursuit of strategies to ensure technological superiority.

With regard to Japan's opening up of its markets, the US Government has begun to adopt a strategy of pursuing results toward Japan, which has made it impossible for Japan to continue in a perfunctory manner. Later, during his second term, President Reagan signed the first decree imposing economic sanctions on Japan since the end of World War II: imposing 100% tariffs on $300 million worth of memory exported by Japan to the United States.

Apparently. Against the backdrop of international politics and US-Japanese relations, the exposure of the "Toshiba incident" will naturally cause an uproar, and the Western media have all verbally and penally criticized Japan, and the Americans have seized the opportunity to take up the big stick! According to the spirit of the US Constitution and the "Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Control Act," the United States cannot import Japanese weapons and military technology. But as Japan became a world-class technological power, the U.S. government sought to break through this legal limit in order to secure its technological superiority. Second, Japan advocates the issue of independently developing FSX fighters. This is not only a manifestation of the competition between Japanese industry and American industry, but also a symbol of Japan's political demand for equal status with the United States.

The US Government's insistence on cooperating with Japan in the development of the FXS fighter is closely related to its eagerness to acquire Japan's automatic phased array radar and overall wing modeling technology. In September 1980, the US Government informally solicited the views of the Japanese side on the issue of importing Japanese military technology. In June 1981, U.S. Secretary of Defense Weinberg formally made the above request to the Japanese government.

After a long period of adjustment, the Japanese government decided to lift the ban on the export of defense technology to the United States until January 1983, when Prime Minister Nakasone visited the United States. However, on the issue of the specific objects of export and the approval procedure, the two sides have their own opinions. Japan advocates that only military technology should be used as the object, and that the method of examining and approving applications should be adopted one by one. The United States, on the other hand, advocates the inclusion of dual-use technologies. Private companies should be allowed to implement themselves with general administrative approval. As a result, it took the U.S. government another almost two years to pave the way for a real transfer of military technology.

In November 1984, the United States and Japan established a joint military-technical commission. In early 1985, the U.S. government invited Japan to participate in the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). In December, the United States and Japan concluded detailed arrangements for the transfer of military technology. The United States has asked Japan to transfer as many as 36 types of military technology. However, in 1986. The Japanese Government has decided to export to the United States only three types of technology related to portable surface-to-air missiles and the construction and modification of warships. Obviously, this is still quite far from what the US government is asking for.?

The occurrence of the "Toshiba incident" provided a rare opportunity for the US government to advance its plan.

In June 1987, U.S. Secretary of Defense Weinberg visited Japan. He proposed: "Instead of trying to punish Toshiba subsidiaries for breaking the law, we should do so by removing those who fail in their duties and establishing and enforcing new regulations to prevent similar incidents from happening again". "We advocate proactive, not negative, actions, and now the main thing we want to do is to regain the leading position in the technology of submarine construction"; "With funding from Japan, Japan and the United States have embarked on an extensive research and development program. mastering better submarine detection techniques and creating submarines that are less noisy than Soviet submarines".

On July 21, 1987, the United States and Japan reached an agreement that Japan would participate in the U.S. Strategic Defense Program and agree to increase the level of export controls. On 2 October, the Japanese government announced that it would abandon its plan to develop the FSX fighter on its own and agreed to jointly develop the fighter with General Dynamics of the United States. In April 1988, the United States and Japan reached an agreement: Japan provided $1.33 billion to improve the F-16 "Falcon" fighter produced by General Dynamics of the United States; Under the approved program for the procurement and production of F-16 fighters, more than one-third of the development work financed by Japan will be undertaken by American companies; New technologies developed by Japan on the basis of information provided by the United States will be returned to the United States free of charge; The United States also has access to information about the advanced process technology pioneered by Japan for the FXS fighter. and can purchase these technologies.

The significance of these two agreements is considerable. As Weinberg commented in his memoirs: "For the first time, we now have access to Japanese technology that we did not have in the past. ”

For Japan, we need to learn from each other's strengths through cooperative development. Maintaining the security system between Japan and the United States through technology transfer is also a realistic strategic choice that will bring more benefits than disadvantages.

The "Toshiba incident" also had a multifaceted impact on the development of Japan's export control policy.

First, Japan's export control agencies have been significantly expanded. Second, the ties between the Japanese Government and the economic circles have been markedly strengthened. Third, the Japanese government has made "safe export control" the core of its export control policy, and is gradually changing to a "non-proliferation" export control system.

There is another big aspect. Regarding the comparison of the world's military power, for the Soviet Union, Toshiba Machine's 9-axis CNC machine tool can be described as a send-off. However, for the United States, it has to spend an additional $330 billion on improving naval military technology and raising the level of naval armaments. NATO countries had to similarly spend huge sums of money to upgrade their military forces to counter the threat of the Soviet Navy.

The financial resources involved are more than hundreds of billions of dollars. This is an unprecedented economic and military blow to the allies, and an arms race between Europe, the United States and the USSR will inevitably be!

In other words, the Soviet Union lost hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars to Europe and the United States with less than 20 million US dollars, which is simply a big winner!

Lin Qiangsheng didn't know if the Soviet leader could wake up laughing at night, but if he did, he would definitely celebrate for a few days!

There is this pig teammate of Japan, I don't know if it is the luck or misfortune of the Americans! (To be continued......)