China gains advanced weapons technology through espionage

Chinese president boasts of new Stealth fighter jet

By Jim Kouri
Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Chinese President Hu Jintao, who is expected to visit with President Barack Obama next week, boasted that China’s military tested its first Stealth fighter jet, according to the Pentagon.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced that he was told by the Chinese leader that the maiden test-flight of the advanced fighter jet wasn’t connected to his visit to the Chinese capital of Beijing. In a series of Internet postings, Chinese citizens were told that their nation successfully flew a J-20 stealth fighter jet that promises to rival anything that exists in the United States.

While the Obama White House desires stronger military contacts as one of the tangible gains it hopes to win from Chinese President Hu’s visit to Washington next week, he is not expected to address the rampant Chinese espionage within the U.S. military and private-sector corporations such as Lockheed-Martin and Boeing.

The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation and Britain’s MI5 suspect upwards of 15 foreign intelligence services are working within the UK and are a threat to the United Kingdom’s interests, and the primary focus of their counterespionage efforts are the Chinese and Russians.

Using many of the same methods the Japanese used in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, the Chinese are interested in any and all information that may give them a leg up in the competitive global economy as well as increasing their military prowess.

In spite of repeated warnings to businesses, companies in the US and UK continue to hire Chinese workers without conducting thorough background investigations or verifying previous employment.

Chinese government officials and businessmen are proven aggressive in their attempts to find out everything about how Western companies operate and how they are structured. It is old-fashioned human intelligence gathering—it’s thousands of years old and it works. Taking a page out of Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War,â€