In general, I don't have an opinion on a plane that has never flown and was unveiled simply because prototypes were constructed. China unveils planes for official introduction when it is near or already inducted into our armed forces; since the B-21 is the first new design that the US introduced since I started military watching about a decade ago, I didn't realize that the US liked to introduce things at a prototype completed stage. In any case, unlike many Americans, I'm focused and excited about the developments of my own country and have no desire to trash-talk others (unless provoked of course) because regardless of whether they do poorly or well or anything in between, I have full confidence in the Chinese innovative capacity to always surpass its rivals in due time.
That said,
The giveaway that the plane is functional (and should live up to its expected marketing) is that even the Global Times is seething mad about the plane instead of being dismissive as it usually is
1. How do you differentiate between seething mad and dismissive? Because that quote read as dismissive to me. It's literally dismissing the B-21 as any kind of game-changer that could alter the course of a battle for Taiwan isl.
2. China's reaction doesn't give away anything about the plane because that would assume that China knows the functionality of an untested American plane when it hasn't even flown yet. The US themselves don't know if it's functional or if it can live up to expectations because that is what the testing phase is for.
If The War Zone suddenly became seething mad instead of dismissive, that would in fact, be highly interesting and inferences would be reasonably drawn as is the case with Global Times which is generaly dismissive of US capabilities, well until now
Once again, I don't think you have the reading comprehension capability to differentiate between the two. The general trend of Americans is to talk down on all Chinese military designs. And I think it's even more funny that you immediately came to an impossible conclusion about the functionality of a plane that has never left the ground based on a falsey perceived reaction and then clearly said that if the reaction were opposite or from the US, it would just be highly interesting and we should draw reasonable inferences LOL. Your inference was the least logical and least reasonable of all.
Wrong. US military cries to media the sky is falling so that media can cry to politicians that China is scary and US military needs more funding.
Then it works the other way with China as well LOL
