The Chinese Military: Built With American Help
Commentary
A former U.S. Marine fighter pilot is awaiting extradition from Australia to the United States. He’s charged with helping the Chinese military learn naval flight operations from 2009–2012. It’s against the law to export such defense know-how without a license.
If the charges are true, he really shouldn’t have done this, for example, helping the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) improve its ability to kill Americans if and when the time comes.
This is bad enough, but one might ask: just him?
Yes, teaching Chinese pilots to master the difficult art of flying on and off an aircraft carrier is, at best, stupid and, at worst, traitorous….