China’s suspected theft of F-35 technical data took center stage in a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday morning when senators pressed Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work on how the United States should respond to nation-states who steal U.S. military technology.Although the software and weapons payload for China’s J-31 fighter may be different than that of the F-35 made by Lockheed Martin [LMT], there’s no denying that the Chinese plane “mirrors” the Joint…
