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China hones its air combat skills with help from renegade Western pilots

A video which appeared on social media in late April showing two pilots in China - one of them a foreigner - has revived the question of the training of People's Liberation Army pilots by Westerners, some from France, already reported on by Intelligence Online. The small South African firm behind the affair has put Western intelligence services on alert. [...] (806 words)

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