you are correct, most of blogger are overly chest tamping nationalistic,that's why you needed to cross check there article.LOL, this is not that big a deal. Emerging major powers learn from the established. It's no rocket science and neither do you have to be Astrodamus to predict that China will develop these things. In fact it is a necessity in stead of just being favorable for China to possess these technologies.
Those of you that are Chinese or read Chinese probably understand what I'm saying. The netizens on Chinese military sites are overly nationalistic and are daydreaming about a lot of things. In fact they are crazy enough to say that a lot of non-existent projects and weapons to exist. Many of you probably have heard of bullshit rumours of fighter jets named successively from J-12 to J-20, even crazy CG artworks are made up to support these to "prove it".
I'm not saying these are all made up, but majority of confirmations are just simply coincidences. For example, artworks of the J20 were out years before its appearance in Chengdu. There were hundreds of variations. You can tell these were simply done by amateur fanboys fantasizing. Like we all have agreed before, doesn't matter how innovative you are or how advanced a firm may be, there are only few mature designs that you can really use. Therefore it's a mere coincidence that these fantasies coincided with the actual jet.
I'm sure 99.99999999999% of these people aren't in the military industry complex, but rather a 20 years old writing fantasy posts from his college dorm.
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