Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) has called on China to immediately end the training of fighter jet pilots by former Bundeswehr soldiers. He made it unmistakably clear that it was unacceptable for Berlin for former Air Force pilots to pass on their knowledge to Chinese pilots.
After their retirement, the pilots were recruited by seemingly unsuspicious companies in South Africa and New Zealand and then placed in China. For their work in China, they are said to collect six-figure annual salaries.