China's J-20 fighter accused of stealing U.S. technology

Jar Jar Binks · Mar 16, 2014

Don't flame me !!! :biggrin:

China's J-20 fighter accused of stealing U.S. technology

2014/03/15 22:56:59

Taipei, March 15 (CNA) China's new J-20 jet fighters could be running on technology "stolen" from the U.S. military's next-generation F-35 fighters, a minor news website based in Washington reported Thursday.

The Washington Free Beacon report, which quoted anaylists and officials, indicated that the J-20's electro-optical targeting system and other technologies were obtained by a Chinese cyber espionage group that has reportedly stolen U.S. government secrets since 2007.

It cited mostly unnamed officials as having said that details of the J-20 posted online seemingly confirm the use of designs by Lockheed Martin, the maker of the F-35. It also cited the officials as saying that China had stolen data on the latest terminal high-altitude defense missile system as well as the Patriot III missile defense system.

China's state-run Global Times replied to the report Saturday, portraying it as biased and based on speculation.

The Global Times quoted Liu Jiangping, a senior researcher at China Society of Military Sciences, who called the Washington Free Beacon report groundless and criticized the paper for making accusations "based only on the similarity in (the J-20's) appearance and aerodynamic design."

Both China's J-20 and the U.S.-made F-35 belong to the fifth generation of fighter jets. Both models are currently being produced in their respective countries, but neither has yet entered active service.

(By Charles Kang and Lilian Wu)

3_M · Mar 16, 2014

So easy to steal? U mean there is no measure to safeguard US top secret technology? How come US don't go after their own people for negligence?

Jah_rastafar_I · Mar 16, 2014

when ppl are jealous they make all sorts of unfounded accusations.

steffychun · Mar 16, 2014

The US stole technology from the Nazis to make jet and even stealth planes. So they should shut up.

tanwahtiu · Mar 16, 2014

If WW2 continues for another 3 months Germans will have its first jet fighter plane for war against US.

steffychun said:
The US stole technology from the Nazis to make jet and even stealth planes. So they should shut up.

steffychun · Mar 16, 2014

tanwahtiu said:
If WW2 continues for another 3 months Germans will have its first jet fighter plane for war against US.

it did. the Me 262 scared the shit out of the Americans.

Jar Jar Binks · Mar 16, 2014

Chinese 'spies' attending US universities, says expelled Peking University professor

PUBLISHED : Friday, 28 February, 2014, 11:45am
UPDATED : Saturday, 01 March, 2014, 8:50am

Agence France-Presse in Washington

Xia Yeliang, Visiting Fellow of the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity at the Cato Institute, speaks during a panel discussion in Washington on Thursday. Photo: AFP

A prominent Beijing scholar who recently fled to the United States has warned that China was sending "spies" to American universities, and urged US institutions to tread carefully on academic co-operation.

Xia Yeliang is one of the original signatories of Charter 08, a petition for reform whose Nobel Prize-winning lead author Liu Xiaobo is in prison.

Xia, an economist, was fired in October from Peking University. In his first public event since moving to the US last month, Xia said on Thursday he was mindful of the 1950s McCarthy era, when smears of alleged communist sympathies hit the reputations of Americans in government, entertainment and academia.

But Xia, who has been a visiting scholar at several US universities, said he was aware of "real spies" sent by Beijing to the US to carry out surveillance under the guise of academic exchange.

"Every year there are some visiting scholars. Among them, I can definitely say some of the people are actually spies. They don't do any research," Xia said at the Cato Institute, a Washington think tank which has made him a visiting fellow.

Xia urged US universities - which have been opening campuses for students from China and Gulf Arab monarchies - to ensure they "keep up some basic values like freedom of speech".

"If Hitler were here and he tried to make some co-operation with Western universities … would you also like to accept that?" he said. "Some people would say, 'Oh, you cannot compare with that.' But there's some aspects [in which] it's quite similar."

Xia said he hoped US universities would keep contacts with Chinese counterparts and encourage enrolment of Chinese students, but called for a clear-eyed look at their motivations.

Peking University said Xia was fired for poor teaching, charges which Xia rejected.

Jar Jar Binks · Mar 16, 2014

US defence contractor admits to giving secrets to Chinese girlfriend

PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 12 March, 2014, 11:01pm
UPDATED : Wednesday, 12 March, 2014, 11:01pm

Associated Press in Honolulu

Bishop had US secrets at home.

A civilian US defence contractor accused of giving military secrets to a Chinese girlfriend half his age will be entering a guilty plea, according to his attorney.

Benjamin Bishop was expected to plead guilty in federal court today to one count of transmitting national defence information to a person not entitled to receive it and one count of unlawfully retaining national defence documents and plans.

Bishop, 60, was arrested in March last year at the headquarters of the US Pacific Command, where he worked.

A document for the plea agreement, filed on Tuesday, said Bishop e-mailed his girlfriend classified information on joint training and planning sessions between the US and South Korea.

It said Bishop had classified documents at his Hawaii home, including one titled "US Department of Defence China Strategy", another on US force posture in Asia and the Pacific and a US Pacific Command joint intelligence operations centre special report.

An FBI affidavit last year alleged the then-59-year-old gave his 27-year-old girlfriend classified information about war plans, nuclear weapons, missile defences and other topics.

His attorney, Birney Bervar, has said the two were in love and that the case was about love and not espionage.

Bishop has been in federal detention in Honolulu for the majority of time since his arrest in March last year.

US district court judge Leslie Kobayashi allowed him to move to a halfway house in June. A magistrate ordered him back to jail in December after he violated the terms of his release by e-mailing his girlfriend and writing a letter to her.

The FBI alleged Bishop and the woman, now 28, started an intimate, romantic relationship in June 2011. The prosecution said she was a graduate student and that she and Bishop were having an extramarital affair.

Utah state records show Bishop was married until 2012.

The FBI's affidavit alleged the woman might have attended an international defence conference in Hawaii, where she initially met Bishop, specifically to target people like Bishop who had access to classified information.

Authorities have not released her identity or whereabouts. They also have not said publicly whether they believed she was working for the Chinese government.

She was living in the US as a student on a J-1 visa, according to the FBI.

Defendants must normally be indicted within a month of their arrest. Bishop's defence team waived the deadline in exchange for an opportunity to view the prosecution's evidence, much of which is classified.

Bishop, who is a lieutenant colonel in the US army reserve, worked in the field of cyberdefence at Pacific Command from May 2011 until his arrest. Prior to that, he helped develop Pacific Command strategy and policy.

Jar Jar Binks · Mar 16, 2014

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londoncabby said:
Copycat China no talent no brain idiots!

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wor...er_jet_based_off_us_tech_official.html?r=news

China stealth fighter jet, J-20, based off downed U.S. F-117 Nighthawk technology: military official

By Michael Sheridan
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, January 24th 2011, 2:36 PM

The stealth fighter jet developed by China may have utilized technology from a downed United States plane, military officials in the Balkans claim.

Parts of a F-117 Nighthawk were allegedly bought from farmers who recovered pieces of the wreckage, according to Adm. Davor Domazet-Loso, Croatia's military chief of staff during the Kosovo war.

"We believe the Chinese used those materials to gain an insight into secret stealth technologies ... and to reverse-engineer them," he said, The Associated Press reports.

The Nighthawk was downed by a Serbian anti-aircraft missile during a bombing raid in March 1999. It was the first time one of the fighters had been hit, and the Pentagon blamed clever tactics and sheer luck. The pilot ejected and was rescued.

A senior Serbian military official confirmed that pieces of the wreckage were removed by souvenir collectors, and that some ended up "in the hands of foreign military attaches."

Zoran Kusovac, a Rome-based military consultant, said the regime of the former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic routinely shared captured western equipment with its Chinese and Russian allies. "The destroyed F-117 topped that wish-list for both the Russians and Chinese," he said.

Reports about a Chinese stealth fighter jet, dubbed the J-20, surfaced in recent weeks when photos of the aircraft were posted online. They were then featured in a China-based newspaper.

The Communist country later confirmed the existence of the plane when a test flight coincided with a visit by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

China's advancements in military technology have raised some eyebrows in Washington.

"[China] clearly [has] potential to put some of our capabilities at risk," Gates told reporters traveling with him to Asia. "We have to pay attention to them, we have to respond appropriately with our own programs."

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wor...based_off_us_tech_official.html#ixzz1C0gOfZOW

Jar Jar Binks · Mar 16, 2014

Even their ally gets accused. :biggrin:

June 13, 2012 | Chosun Ilbo (English Edition)

Korean and U.S. military officers earlier this year investigated suspicions by the U.S. government
that Korea illegally disassembled F-15K fighter jet equipment for low-altitude night penetration attacks.

An official with the Defense Acquisition Program Administration on Monday said the chief of the U.S.
Defense Technology Security Administration raised suspicions in a meeting with a senior DAPA official in
early June that Korea illegally disassembled the Tiger Eye, a key component of the cutting-edge U.S.-made
fighter jets. The U.S. suspects this was done to steal the technology, since Korea is an aspiring player in
the global arms market.

The Tiger Eye is a device installed under the F-15K's fuselage that helps the jet fly at a low altitude to
avoid detection by enemy radar systems and launch precision attacks with precision-guided munitions at
night and in bad weather. It consists of navigation systems and targeting pod devices.

The KF-16, which Korea procured before the F-15K, has a similar system called "LANTIRN." But Tiger Eye
is much more advanced, and the U.S. is reluctant to transfer the technology. It therefore seals the box
before it exports the device to other countries, and the contract stipulates that it cannot be disassembled.

But the U.S. said one box which the Air Force had sent to the U.S. for maintenance and repair showed
evidence of the seal having been broken, illegally disassembled and put back together again, according to
a source.

Korea has a history of disassembling U.S.-made weapons in the 1980s and using what it learned to develop
its own weapons.

3_M · Mar 16, 2014

Jar Jar Binks said:
Chinese 'spies' attending US universities, says expelled Peking University professor

PUBLISHED : Friday, 28 February, 2014, 11:45am
UPDATED : Saturday, 01 March, 2014, 8:50am

Agence France-Presse in Washington

Xia Yeliang, Visiting Fellow of the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity at the Cato Institute, speaks during a panel discussion in Washington on Thursday. Photo: AFP

A prominent Beijing scholar who recently fled to the United States has warned that China was sending "spies" to American universities, and urged US institutions to tread carefully on academic co-operation.

Xia Yeliang is one of the original signatories of Charter 08, a petition for reform whose Nobel Prize-winning lead author Liu Xiaobo is in prison.

Xia, an economist, was fired in October from Peking University. In his first public event since moving to the US last month, Xia said on Thursday he was mindful of the 1950s McCarthy era, when smears of alleged communist sympathies hit the reputations of Americans in government, entertainment and academia.

But Xia, who has been a visiting scholar at several US universities, said he was aware of "real spies" sent by Beijing to the US to carry out surveillance under the guise of academic exchange.

"Every year there are some visiting scholars. Among them, I can definitely say some of the people are actually spies. They don't do any research," Xia said at the Cato Institute, a Washington think tank which has made him a visiting fellow.

Xia urged US universities - which have been opening campuses for students from China and Gulf Arab monarchies - to ensure they "keep up some basic values like freedom of speech".

"If Hitler were here and he tried to make some co-operation with Western universities … would you also like to accept that?" he said. "Some people would say, 'Oh, you cannot compare with that.' But there's some aspects [in which] it's quite similar."

Xia said he hoped US universities would keep contacts with Chinese counterparts and encourage enrolment of Chinese students, but called for a clear-eyed look at their motivations.

Peking University said Xia was fired for poor teaching, charges which Xia rejected.

U mean F-35 blueprint is accessible from university library?

singveld · Mar 16, 2014

stay away from PRC whore

Jar Jar Binks · Mar 16, 2014

Wow! this thread alone attracts several PAP IB clones. Not surprised. A few negative PRC threads in this folder surely must have pissed them off. :biggrin:

lurpsexx · Mar 16, 2014

What is unsaid here is how the US is doing the opposite to China... the counter espionage work done to uncover just how much China knows, and also to plant false data for China to copy... the J-20 has been seen in public but there is no regular public flyoff to show this MIC stealth fighter. On the other hand, the F-35 has been test flying for years and is in low rate intro to the US Marines and Airforce... News of the EO-DAS being compromised may be due to BAE systems leaks and not LM... but I doubt the whole EO system was lost to the Chinks....

Leongsam · Mar 16, 2014

Never trust the chinks or the ah nehs. They'd sell their own grandmothers for a buck.

pallkia · Mar 16, 2014

singveld said:
stay away from PRC whore

Singapore whores are not any better , yesterday I was in a shopping ctr for just 1 hour and I saw more than 10 couples mainly singapore chinese girls with at least 5 ah neh guys and the rest are United Nations .The local chinese girls are equally cheapskates.

virus · Mar 16, 2014

Leongsam said:
Never trust the chinks or the ah nehs. They'd sell their own grandmothers for a buck.

MIW even worst rite? they can sell national heritage called raffles hotel, sell national assets like power plant. even the plans of important places like istana and ministries have fallen to hands of chinese acquired CPG.

Agoraphobic · Mar 16, 2014

That's part of the game in military cloak and dagger. Everybody steals from everybody, who doesn't? Who won't?

Cheers!

GoldenPeriod · Mar 16, 2014

If you don't steal, then you are the stupid one.

Why re-invent the wheel?

virus · Mar 16, 2014

so is there anything left in the vault where the 2nd key also turned automatically?

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