Peter Schweizer

As a result of that, one of the reforms that Congress enacted was the screening of flight schools.

If you came from a terrorist sponsoring country or era or region, you underwent great scrutiny.

because we didn't want to train people doing that.

That certainly did not apply to China back in 2002.

I think the sense of competition between the United States and China was not as great, but that has changed.

So what's happened here is you have flight schools that are looking for students who

By the way, we have a pilot shortage in the United States, but these flight schools are largely populated by Chinese nationals.

There's one in Merced, California.

A former Air Force base there was privatized.

A flight school was built there.

I believe it has Korean and Chinese investors.

And you look at the profiles of the students, and I would guess 90% of the students are Chinese nationals.

The tuition is paid for by the Chinese government.

It's $90,000 a year.

There's another flight school in Arizona.

There are some in Florida, other locations around the United States.

And China's reason for doing this, Mark, is they say – and again, this is their literature –

They say they need 5,000 pilots a year, civilian and military, but they can only train 1,250 because the military restricts airspace.

So there's not enough space to actually train in the air.

So they have outsourced it to the United States.