Or maybe a blogger has read something genuine, put two and two together and made five.
It would be worthwhile scouring for news of any Chinese Govt or SEO Joint Venture Investment with Tupolev. The ideal of China spending this amount of money to fund the development of a new aircraft would make far more sense and be in tune with the nature of deepening security ties between the countries over the last decade.
Putin in is town for the next few days, so the timing of such news is at least plausible.
It would be worthwhile scouring for news of any Chinese Govt or SEO Joint Venture Investment with Tupolev. The ideal of China spending this amount of money to fund the development of a new aircraft would make far more sense and be in tune with the nature of deepening security ties between the countries over the last decade.
Putin in is town for the next few days, so the timing of such news is at least plausible.