China’s J-20 jet is copied from U.S.’ F-22

OAN Deven Berryhill
UPDATED 1:00 PM PT – Thursday, March 9, 2023

James Anderson, Secretary of Defense Policy has stated that China stole military secrets during the development of its 5^Th generation J-20 fighter jet.

Anderson and others have shown that there is not enough being done to secure classified military secrets. 

“What we know is that because of the espionage efforts, [China’s] J-20 is more advanced than it otherwise would be, and that’s the important point here,” Anderson spoke to Fox News Digital recently.

On Thursday, tensions over the Chinese spy balloon incident, China’s support for Russia’s war against Ukraine and concern about Taiwan’s sovereignty brought out the similarities between American and Chinese military technology.

“They have profited greatly from their thievery over the years,” ​Anderson said. “They’ve put it to good use, and they’ve come up with an advanced fifth-generation fighter​.”​

In 2015, the Associated Press ran a story about similarities between J-20 and U.S. fighter jets stating, “some of its technology, it turns out, may well have come from the U.S. itself.”

Some academics have blamed China’s need to copy American technology and intellectual property to “philosophical differences.”

“You can even look in the history of China with an overall culture of things that have provided a betterment for society versus a worry about it,” said James Hess, professor at the School of Security and Global Studies at American Public University System (APUS). “That lack of enforcement is probably more reflective of a culture… there’s certainly a cultural aspect to this.”

A 2014 Harvard Business Review article titled “The Communist Party requires a representative in every company with more than 50 employees,” called out China’s Communist regime as un-inventive for its “controlling” practices and lack of creativity.

“But even if the government were to disband party cells and instead redouble its efforts to encourage breakthrough innovation, there remains an even stronger disincentive: the economic realities of the markets in which Chinese companies operate,” wrote Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, and Warren McFarlan. “Why go to the trouble to pioneer innovative offerings when the rewards and growth prospects for incremental improvements are so vast, both at home and abroad?”

Anderson also argued that economic incentives for China were greatly outweighed by any regards for intellectual copyright.

“It saves the Chinese time and money. In effect, we end up subsidizing a portion of their research and development budget because they are successfully stealing some of our secrets,”Anderson stated. “Ultimately, this puts our men and women at greater risk on the battlefield.”

Anderson stated that the J-20 is not comparable to the U.S. F-22 Raptor. “actual combat” w​​as to take place between the two.