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Several reasons :I just dont get why cash starved russia and tech starved china won't rush to fulfill their objectives using a mutually beneficial program, considering they can fully complement each other's disability.
1) The fact that you brought up the Su-27 deal should have given you an idea how effectively China can reverse engineer any tech that they can get their hands on. The original deal was for China to produce Su-27s with Russian avionics and engines, thus giving Russia a steady revenue. But emergence of the J-11 pretty much threw that into the shredder. So Russia is very unlikely to make another similar deal with China in which China buys a small batch of Tu-22ms or Tu-160s and pretty much skip over years if not decades of Russian effort and money spent on designing the bombers. Something any nation will have a bitter taste for.
2) Despite Russian and Chinese chumminess in recent years. They still have certain degrees of rivalry, such rivalry was even more pronounced during the Cold War and it's immediate aftermath. So despite how cash starved Russia was, it was not going to sell every single shiny toy it has in its arsenal to a erstwhile rival. Especially if there is no guarantee that those said weapons won't be used against it.