US, Australia: China ‘aggressively recruiting’ our fighter pilots

Washington | The US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have jointly warned that China is “aggressively recruiting� Western fighter pilots in an effort to train its own military aviators.

An intelligence-sharing partnership known as the Five Eyes said in a bulletin on Wednesday (Thursday AEST) that the People’s Liberation Army was trying to tap the “skills and expertise of these individuals� to improve its own air operations.