Xi Jinping said it is necessary to promote defence modernization and build the military into a “Great Wall of Steel” while delivering the closing speech of the National People’s Congress of the Communist Party of China concluded on 13 March. American security experts reacted by apprehending that Xi Jinping’s third term will deepen “military-civilian integration” and espionage activities and steal Western technology to speed up the pace of military modernization.
A former US defence official revealed that China has a fifth-generation stealth fighter jet similar to the US F-22 fighter jet, mainly due to continuous intellectual property theft. Former US Acting Deputy Secretary James Anderson said in an interview with Fox News that “without espionage, the Chinese J-20 fighter jet cannot compete with It is more advanced now, and that is the point.”
“For many years, China has profited greatly from theft,” Anderson said. “They have used theft well and have developed an advanced fifth-generation fighter jet.” The actual combat comparison of F-22 Raptor fighters.
Terry Thompson, a retired US Air Force colonel, told Voice of America (VOA) that China mainly steals engine and power system technologies. “China does not have the ability to coat aircraft with invisible materials. They just steal from the United States.”
China’s military spending has increased significantly by 7.2 per cent this year. On the 8th of March, when receiving delegations from the army and the armed police force, Xi Jinping said that the key is to work hard on “integration”.
VOA reported that China, not only in the field of fifth-generation fighter jets but also the sixth-generation fighter jets, supersonic weapons and missiles, and even the spy balloon that crossed the continental United States last month, all seem to incorporate elements of American technology behind it. The US State Department described
China’s “military-civil fusion” strategy and said China is developing and acquiring key technologies through legal and illegal means, including blatant theft. Thompson said that the CCP lacks a solid technological foundation and has a long history of stealing from the shoulders of the free world.
The article “How Decades of Chinese Espionage “Stole” US Military Technology” pointed out that deep-penetrating warheads, new hardened heat-resistant nanocomposites, vertical take-off and landing drones, and a new generation of submarine “silence” technologies are of great importance to the US military. The cutting-edge weapon system is of great significance and has also received high attention at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. China has recruited at least 162 Chinese scientists who have worked in the laboratory in the past three decades. “Simply and plainly, many US-driven technological advances in these key areas appear to have been stolen by Chinese spies,” said Osborne, the article’s author.
US Fears More Theft from China
VOA reports that Chinese intelligence tricks include the use of espionage, beauty tricks, and bribes to buy American contractors, university professors, and government officials, as well as high-tech cyber activities to steal key information on military weapons. “We are going to see more and more theft from China, more and more espionage, looking at how the United States builds aircraft carriers, how they build aircraft that land on them, and so on,” Thompson said.
According to Nikkei Asia, about 100 NPC and CPPCC delegates this year come from companies sanctioned by the United States, and many come from state-owned military enterprises, chip and artificial intelligence companies. In addition, the new State Council has many senior officials from the military field, and the new Minister of Defence Li Shangfu has also been sanctioned by the United States.
Thompson said that the United States urgently needs to increase its deployment of troops in the Western Pacific and cut off the Chinese military’s access to American technology. China wants to become the dominant power in the Pacific Ocean, which will be its development goal in the next few decades, Thompson said, “we need to stop them in time”.
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