Senator Jim Banks (Republican from Indiana) is sounding the alarm about Chinese citizens studying to become pilots in the United States, which was first revealed in the book "The Invisible Coup" by New York Times bestselling author and senior Bre...
...itbart News contributor Peter Schweizer.: How American elites and foreign powers use immigration as a weapon."He sent a letter to the Transportation Security Administration on the issue, National Review reported, because these cadets can become a resource for the PLA and meet its demand for pilots.Banks wrote in the letter:Every Chinese citizen who studies at an American flight school helps overcome the shortage of pilots in #China. Although many of these students will pursue civilian rath...
...er than military careers, the Chinese Communist Party, through its strategy of military-civilian integration, has deprived us of the opportunity to view this training with confidence. The more Chinese citizens who receive aviation training, the more opportunities the Chinese military has to recruit pilots and instructors for its malicious purposes.Schweizer described in detail in The Invisible Coup how the CCP uses America's "openness and generosity against us" by sending thousands of inte...
...rns to the United States to train as pilots.Breitbart News reported in January:"The People's Republic of China has a problem with pilots," an investigative journalist writes in The Invisible Coup. "Beijing needs 5,000 cadets each year to meet the demand for both military and civilian pilots. Because the Chinese military tightly controls the country's airspace, they can only train about 1,200 pilots per year domestically. Therefore, Beijing has quietly set up a system to train 3,000 of them...
... per year in the United States.""Across the United States, at least 16 taxpayer-funded flight schools operating at airports train Chinese cadets - sometimes without disclosing their foreign military connections," he continues. "They do this by sending future military pilots to the United States posing as civilians to learn how to fly."
