【新唐人2011年11月10日讯】美国国会参议院军事委员会两位重量级议警察告说，来自中国的伪劣电子产品正在冲击美国国防部的供应体系，威胁到美国军队安全和国民利益。11月8号美国参议院就此召开了听证会。
在11月8号举行的听证会上，参议院军事委员会主席，民主党参议员卡尔•莱文（Carl Levin）说，美国政府对国防部供应体系中的387家公司进行调查后，发现近年来假冒伪劣产品的数量上升，中国是主要来源。
他表示，从今年三月展开调查以来，几乎所有被谈话的人，从国防部承包商、到半导体生产商、到电子产品供应商，都毫不例外的指出中国，特别是深圳，是伪劣电子产品的主要来源。
参议院军事委员会的调查人员查阅了10万多页国防部文件和70多家企业资料，共发现1800个涉嫌案例，仿冒元件总数达到100万个。
这些假冒伪劣电子产品被用于美军使用的夜视设备、电脑，以及不同型号的军用飞机，比如空军C-17、C-130J、C-27J运输机，以及波音公司为美国海军制造的P-8A战斗机等等。
波音公司承认，有三起疑似假冒伪劣产品安装在P-8A上的事件。他们最早在2009年发现结冰探测装置中的一个掉落零件是旧零件改装，调查这些零件的根源，追溯到了深圳一家工厂。
调查人员表示，1800个涉嫌案例中，超过70%的案例可追溯到中国。被称为E－废料的原料从香港用卡车运到中国大陆，特别是到仿冒品集中的广东汕头。中国的制造商将旧的电子元件从电路板上取下，打磨去掉商标和条形码，然后这些“旧貌换新颜”的元件就会在互联网或市场上公开出售。
莱文表示，已经查证的案例还只是冰山一角。共和党参议员约翰•马侃（John McCain）则表示，这些假冒电子产品既给美国军队带来真正危险，也加大了武器系统的花费。不能容忍这样的风险出现。
莱文参议员呼吁中国合作打击假冒伪劣产品，他说，如果中共政府愿意，是可以阻止这样的仿冒行为的，他们也必须阻止这样的行为，否则将付出高昂的代价。因为美国将对所有中国进口元件全面检查。
中共外交部发言人洪磊8号在回答记者问时，没有就两位议员的指责作出具体说明，只简单回答说，中共政府一贯重视和各国合作，打压假冒伪劣产品。
然而莱文参议员指责，中共政府阻碍相关调查。因为之前委员会的调查人员想前往中国时被拒绝签证，中国大使馆告知他们，这是一个敏感问题，负面的调查结果将损害美中关系。但莱文参议员说，真正损害美中关系的是对假冒伪劣产品坐视不管。
除了要求中国和其他国家采取行动外，参议员莱文和马侃还表示，将推动修正防卫法，限制仿冒电子产品进入供应链。
新唐人记者尚燕、萧宇综合报导。
Chinese Counterfeiting Products are Entering the U.S. Military Supply Chain
U.S. senior senators of Senate Armed Services Committee
(SASC) warned that
Counterfeit electronic parts from China have ended up
in the Department of Defence (DoD) supply chain.
It poses a serious threat to national security.
A hearing was held on November 8.
On Nov.8 Carl Levin, chairman of the SASC spoke at
a hearing to 387 U.S.companies.
Surveying the DoD supply system, they found that
in recent years counterfeiting parts had increased,
making China a major threat.
Levin said that since the survey started in March this year,
almost all the interviewees,from DoD contractors
to semiconductor manufacturers, to electronic parts suppliers,
pointed out that China was the lead supplier.
With Shen Zhen believed to be the major supplier of
counterfeiting products.
The committee reviewed 100,000 pages of DoD documents,
which investigated 70 companies,
finding 1,800 suspected cases consisting of
100 million counterfeit parts.
These counterfeit chips are used on U.S. military and
Navy night vision equipment, computers and military aircraft,
such as the Air Force C-17, C-130J, C-27J cargo aircraft, and
Navy P-8A Poseidon patrol aircraft made by Boeing Co.
Boeing Co. have admitted that three counterfeit chips
have been found on P-8A.
The first discovered was a problem with ice detection module
on P-8A aircraft in 2009, the failure chips were reworked.
Committee investigators traced these counterfeit parts back
to a factory in Shen Zhen, China.
Investigators said among the 1800 suspected cases,
there are more than 70% from China.
The raw material for counterfeit chips was Electronic waste,
imported from Hong Kong to mainland China by trucks.
The Main source of delivery of counterfeit production was
traced back to Shantou, Guangzhou.
Chinese manufacturers remove old components from boards.
Sanding off the marks and removing identifying numbers,
reworking them to make them look new,
then selling the components online or in the markets.
Levin stated that the case has been verified, and
is just the tip of the iceberg.
Republican Senator John McCain said that
the counterfeit parts put U.S. troops’ lives at risk.
It also increases the cost of weapons systems.
Such risks are unacceptable.
Levin said Chinese authorities must step up in its control of
counterfeit products, if China is willing to stop it, it will stop.
Otherwise, they will pay a high price. Because U.S. will
Inspect all components imported from China.
On Nov. 8, Hong Lei, spokesman for
the Chinese Foreign Ministry,
didn’t respond to the two senators’ criticism,
but simply answered that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
regime always takes care of its cooperation with other countries,
and always suppresses such counterfeit products.
Levin pointed out that the CCP have blocked
the investigation.
He said the Chinese Embassy have denied issuing visa’s
to staff members when they want to visit China to investigate.
Chinese Embassy told them, this is a “sensitive issue”,
any negative results of the investigation will damage U.S.-China relations.
But Levin said the real damage is China’s refusal to act
against counterfeiting, that is openly carried out in that country.
Senator Levin and Senator McCain also said that
they are planning an amendment to the Defence Act.
Its purpose to restrict counterfeit products entering the supply chain as well as
asking China and other countries to take action.
NTD reporters Shang Yan and Xiao Yu.
