Back in the 1950s, Ronald Reagan often said, "At General Electric, progress is our most important product." That was when G.E. executives were patriotic Americans who loved our nation and would not have dreamed of selling jet engines to a Communist totalitarian state that aims to exploit and steal American intellectual property as the price of doing business. G.E. management is too stupid to understand they will never really improve their long-term bottom line with a quick fix deal with Chinese Communists who will never hold up their end of a contract under any rational concept of the rule of law.