REVEALED: Stanford Aerospace Chief Who Oversaw F-22 And F-35 Development Secretly Trained Researchers At Blacklisted Chinese Defense University...Washington restricts the tech. Beijing recruits the people who built it.

A former Stanford University aerospace chairman who spent 14 years reviewing engine programs tied to the F-22 and F-35 traveled to one of China’s most sensitive defense-linked universities under a Chinese foreign-expertise initiative, university records reveal. Brian Cantwell, a longtime Stanford professor of aeronautics and astronautics, spent May 9 through June 3, 2025 at Beihang University, according to an official account published by Beihang. The nearly month-long visit was supported by what Beihang described as an “expertise introduction” program, part of a broader Chinese system designed to recruit foreign technical specialists into Chinese universities. During the visit, Cantwell delivered six...