J-31 Vs The F-35
CNBC: America's most expensive weapons system, the F-35, is a key symbol of Trump's trade gripe with China
* Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson welcomed President Donald Trump's executive memorandum that penalizes China for stealing U.S. companies' intellectual property.
* The Chinese J-31 fighter jet is believed to be a knockoff of Lockheed Martin's F-35.
* The F-35, a fifth-generation stealth fighter, is the Pentagon's most expensive weapons system.
President Donald Trump signed an executive memorandum Thursday that penalizes China for trade practices such as stealing American companies' intellectual property.
The new measures impose retaliatory tariffs on about $60 billion in Chinese imports.
On hand for the signing was Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson, who oversees the Pentagon's most expensive weapons system, the fifth-generation F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
"We buy billions and billions of dollars worth of that beautiful F-35," Trump said before asking Hewson — whom he introduced as "Marillyn Lockheed" — to say a few words.
Hewson, who didn't react to Trump's mixup, said intellectual property is the "lifeblood" of the defense industry and welcomed the action taken by the Trump administration.
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WNU Editor:There are many reasons why there is a trade dispute between the U.S. and China .... stealing intellectual property and not respecting patents is certainly one of them. But while the Chinese fighter jet J-31 does have many similarities to the F-35, they are still two very different planes .... If it's true that China copied using hacked plans, will they produce a better F35 type plane faster? (Quora).
