[jamesvnz]

I know a guy doing this - ex-Typhoon / Tornado pilot, retired. Went over there earlier this year.

The lure to fly fighter planes again was a big draw - plus the massive sack of cash.

He said it wasn't weapons training or even tactics training - really just training them in how to run effective training exercises.

I told him I thought it sounded like the start to a bad 80s action movie plot. He'd been told it was something innocent and then he'd discover he was planning an attack on Taiwan. He and his aging western fighter buddies would have to fight their way out of China with the full might of the China military forces chasing them...