When the Chinese army recruits French pilots – Le Figaro

EXCLUSIVE – “I almost let myself be tempted”: Le Figaro collected the testimony of a French pilot approached by Beijing to train the Chinese air force. Lying in the lush vegetation, the man with Asian features holds the leg in front of his comrade in khaki uniform. “She may be broken. But the stranger is fine! he shouts in Mandarin into his cell phone, his pilot’s helmet on the ground. In front of him, a western face with an aquiline nose, red hair completed with a goatee, comes to his senses. “You are from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Who is he? says a passerby who has just discovered the two pilots ejected in his field, in the heart of the Anhui countryside, and who is filming the scene. “I am Chinese. He is our instructor. No photo. Here, talk to our political commissar, “replies the officer, handing the cell phone to the onlooker, in this rural province in central China. This video relayed on Twitter last April offers a rare glimpse of the very discreet recruitment network of Western pilots by Communist China, as it prepares… This article is for subscribers only. You have 84% left to discover.Freedom has no borders, like your curiosity.Continue reading your article for €0.99 the first month Already a subscriber? Login