China To Speed Up Military Technology Theft, Fears US
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 co...