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British RAF chief calls it 'unacceptable' for China to recruit western military pilots
Reuters via MSN ^ | 3/3/2023 | Reuters

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ccp; raf

1 posted on 03/03/2023 12:14:27 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
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To: RomanSoldier19

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.


2 posted on 03/03/2023 12:21:12 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: RomanSoldier19

And if the Chinese aren’t careful, he may write a strongly-worded letter


3 posted on 03/03/2023 12:51:55 PM PST by PGR88
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To: RomanSoldier19

Well, if one of those pilots could fly one of the aircraft, perhaps they could ‘alter’ their flight plans and bring us the plane.


4 posted on 03/03/2023 12:54:21 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: RomanSoldier19

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.


5 posted on 03/03/2023 12:55:32 PM PST by desertsolitaire (Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes.)
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To: PGR88

...or shoot down some J20s in the SCS


6 posted on 03/03/2023 12:55:50 PM PST by rbmillerjr (Reagan Conservative: Economic Freedom, Peace through Strength, American Values- De Oppresso Liber)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Besides the Chinese can’t understand RAF banter.


7 posted on 03/03/2023 12:56:03 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Pilots! You can’t take money from China!

Only WE can take money from China!


8 posted on 03/03/2023 1:02:51 PM PST by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: RomanSoldier19

to oaths anymore i take it...


9 posted on 03/03/2023 2:50:21 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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