"The Five Eyes bulletin said recruiters for the PLA used “nefarious recruitment” methods that hid the involvement of China’s military. The recruiters were also targeting flight engineers, air operations centre staff and experts with insight into military tactics.

"As part of the training, the PLA was trying to gain knowledge about state of the art western aircraft and tactics that might be used in, for example, a conflict over Taiwan."

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