Obsession With Secrecy

View of the CIDEX electronics show at the Beijing Exhibition Center.

Beijing – The distinction between the use of technologies for military and civilian purposes is hazy and hard to define. This increasingly blurry line, supposedly separating strictly military and "dual-use" products, renders the terms all but obsolete.

This point was driven home at the China Defense Electronics Exposition (CIDEX), which is held every two years at the historic Beijing Exhibition Center in the...