Former Diplomat Reveals 2 Incidents Where Beijing Stole Military Secrets and Made Great Leaps Forward

Chen Yonglin, a former Chinese diplomat who defected to Australia in 2005, speaks at a Sydney rally in 2015. Chen says that CSSAs are supported by the Chinese regime and used to control and spy on Chinese students and scholars outside China. Shar Adams/The Epoch Times

Chinese defector Chen Yonglin has revealed that during two international incidents, Beijing was able to steal U.S. technology that led to major breakthroughs in its military development.

“One is the year [of] the U.S.-led NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia,” he told a panel following the screening of The Epoch Times’ investigative film, The Final War—A 100-Year Plot to Defeat America in Sydney.