Either that or more likely that as I said before H-20 will be designed with this requirement in mind: Take off from mainland China, refuel once in Chinese controlled first island chain and strike targets in CONUS before returning. IMO carrying strike on far out US assets in the third island chain and CONUS should be a main design requirement and not a "nice to have" feature.then China need forward bases just like USA.. so we should talk with Russia ??