Daniel Duggan. Not a name on everybody's lips. And, if BK doesn't like what's happening to him, it is probably the right thing to do.

A number of years ago I was thinking of teaching English in China. I had done the paper work and was getting ready to go. Then I got a letter from a Chinese official. I could get a much higher status and get paid much more if I would teach about computers. I thought if I insisted on teaching English I would get continued pressure from the Chinese government to teach about computers. If I taught computers I would be aiding the Chinese military because that's who my students probably would be. I ended up not going to China.

BK is a good barometer that we are doing things correctly.

now that Australia has willingly committed itself to Armageddon in lock-step with US forces in any conflict with the PRC,
Binoy Kampmark,
Willingly or not, in a conflict between the US & PRC the whole World will be lock-stepped with whatever is being unleashed !

Disagree with anti-American, Binroy.

Daniel is still presumed innocent there and here. And will be given all the legal protection the US system and their bill of rights guarantees. He has the right to remain silent etc.

He nonetheless is not being held nor extradited for nothing and has a case to answer? Doesn't he?

He could do an Assange and spend decades inside, or simply agree to the extradition and take his chance with an eminently fair American justice system, which possibly could find him, not guilty?
Alan B.

Binoy conflating the names of various characters, like Hicks, here posing with a rocket propelled grenade launcher "RPG" https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/86b8d8ad8589a7034de2fa4e1bb14951 at terrorist organisation, Al-Qaeda's, Al Farouq training camp near Kandahar, Afghanistan...

actually does a disservice to Binoy's latest cause
"poor" US Marine Aviator Duggan who Voluntered
to train Chinese pilots (pilots frequently flying against Western pilots, including Australians)

earning Duggan big money...

China doesn't really need anyone to help them learn to fly on or off an aircraft carrier, nations often use land based replicas of the flight deck to train on.

The first aircraft carrier China got their hands on was the HMAS Melbourne which WE SOLD THEM as scrap in 1985 for 1.4 million, and they studied it and made a replica of the flight deck to train pilots on.

Also the Liaoning has been combat ready since 2016.

While China has 2 "ski-jump" carriers (Liaoning and Shandong) China has launched, but not yet flown aircraft off, its latest carrier, Fujian.

Fujian just happens to be China's first CATAPULT carrier. The experience of defector-contractors, like ex-US Marine pilot Duggan, is/was invaluable to China. Duggan was involved in training Chinese pilots to anticipate the cross-winds and "drops off the bow" experienced by Chinese pilots when Fujian is fully operating.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_aircraft_carrier_Fujian

It was always about educating the ignorant Chinese.
Turns out the Ignorance was a misunderstanding of the Chinese character.

http://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/civilization_and_barbarism/cb_essay03.html

Carriers are not that easy to fly off. We killed 7 carrier experienced pilots while working up Melbourne, & that was without anyone shooting at us.

The moral to the story is never get trapped in the American geopolitical web, they have their own judge Freisler, waiting and willing to pass sentence on you.

I'm simply wondering why someone as privileged as a fighter Pilot would teach the people he was trained to oppose, offer to train them with the tactics required ?
Are people now really so selfish ?

One wonders the extent Duggan gave Chinese pilots tips on how to handle Western aircraft, includingf RAAF aircraft, encounters.

In that regard the ABC reports 6 March 2023 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-06/raaf-crews-offered-counselling-after-tense-encounters-with-china/102056560

In May 2022 "the RAAF was dangerously intercepted by a Chinese military aircraft which released aluminium chaff, that was ingested into the engine of the Australian P-8 surveillance plane."