U.S. and allied intelligence services warned current and former military personnel this week that China's military is covertly recruiting fighter pilots to train flyers for Beijing's aircraft carriers and air force.
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, an air force pilot from the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army looks as pilots conduct a joint combat training exercises around the Taiwan Island on Sunday, Aug. …U.S. and allied intelligence services warned current and former military personnel this week that China’s military is covertly recruiting fighter pilots to train flyers for Beijing’s aircraft carriers and air force.
The PLA recruitment program also targets current allied military personnel as well as those who have left service from NATO countries and other Western states. The program also involves the use of private companies in South Africa and China that have been hiring former fighter pilots from Canada, France, Germany, Britain, Australia, the United States, and other Western nations for training of both its navy and air force.
After the arrest, British military authorities issued a warning to military personnel not to train PLA pilots at the South African flight training academy where Mr. Duggan, who renounced his U.S. citizenship, also worked. Potential pilot trainers have been contacted through friends and through military and executive recruitment emails, professional networking, and online job sites. Job offers have been made to the targeted pilots with ties to the PLA hidden from the candidate, including promises of lucrative contracts and the opportunity to fly exotic aircraft.
“It used to take two to three months to design and customize a satellite,” Cao Jin, the general manager of Genesat, told the newsletter. “Now the factory can churn out a satellite every one and a half days and produce up to 300 a year.” Still another company, the rocket company Shanghai Landspace Hongqing Technology, announced plans for deploying 10,000 Honghu-3 satellites.
“A growing volume of evidence — gleaned from public records released under the Freedom of Information Act, digital sleuthing through online databases, scientific papers analyzing the virus and its spread, and leaks from within the U.S. government — suggests that the pandemic most likely occurred because a virus escaped from a research lab in Wuhan, China,” Ms. Chan stated. “If so, it would be the most costly accident in the history of science.
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