Curious - Any sources? Looking at publicly available details and copying them might be intellectually dishonest if it was a piece of coursework, but this isn't an academic research project. Taking features from something that's known to work is the fastest way to get to something working.

If there's actual smuggling of designs or trade secrets going on, I'd be more interested. But if it's just "the rocket looks the same on the outside", that's hardly "industrial espionage".

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mwambua 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Bloomberg's podcast "The Big Take" has been running an interesting series on Chinese industrial espionage called "The Sixth Bureau". Here's a link to the Youtube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38L5UzLwt-s&list=PLe4PRejZgr...

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buckle8017 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Be serious, you don't really need a citation to know the CCP is using industrial espionage to advance their defense industry.

	▲	bryanlarsen 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Sure, they're trying. But there's no evidence they've succeeded in stealing anything other than open source intelligence from SpaceX. There's a lot of open source intelligence about SpaceX rocket designs available.
	▲	throw310822 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Be serious, do you think defense industry normally respects other nations' industrial secrets?