Posted on 03/03/2023 12:14:27 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
Britain's air force chief says it was "unacceptable" its former pilots were being recruited to train Chinese military, and intelligence agencies in Australia and Britain had shared information to warn pilots against working for Beijing.
In October Britain said it would change the law to make it an offence for a former military pilot to continue training a foreign military after being warned by British intelligence agencies to stop.
The Royal Air Force's Air Chief Marshal Mike Wigston told the ABC in an interview at the Avalon Air Show in Australia the warnings were about China.
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Well, we’re paying taxes to representatives of the Chinese Communist Party. Hopefully, in the not too distant future, we’ll place these representatives in jail.
Before the planned execution for treason.
And if the Chinese aren’t careful, he may write a strongly-worded letter
Well, if one of those pilots could fly one of the aircraft, perhaps they could ‘alter’ their flight plans and bring us the plane.
Does the West welcome defecting or former pilots from China, Russia, etc reward them and accept them for the knowledge they bring us about their former countries militaries? If yes, then explain the logic of the position against this beyond wishing it wasn’t so. Sigh.
...or shoot down some J20s in the SCS
Besides the Chinese can’t understand RAF banter.
Pilots! You can’t take money from China!
Only WE can take money from China!
to oaths anymore i take it...
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