Footage of a Chinese military drill? Or, er, a clip from Top Gun?

by | Jan 27, 2011


Joshua Keating at ForeignPolicy.com has returned from the Chinese blogosphere bearing treasure. Footage posted by the PLA that purports to show a recent air force drill bears an uncanny resemblance to a certain much loved 80s movie:

Now check out what happens when the target plane blows up:

Yee-hah, Jester’s dead! Or something like that.

Author

  • Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017). He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development. Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.


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