applesauce
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i think you guys dont realize just how recently china became rich(government wise), its inluence and interest expanded globally and started modernizing its military.
the entire chinese military is being remade from a force based on numbers and low tech, easy to produce hardware to a more Us style, high tech, expensive, mobile force. this is no small task by any means and takes time, and frankly its probably about right that chinese pilots/trainers were very conservative after all 30 years back a pilot(afterall these guys didnt have alot of training back then) was probably cheaper than the airplane itself(and the airframe was cheap). but it has starting changing greatly, more training, greater economy power, smaller but much more powerful force. the PLAAF is starting to take more risks because it can afford them now. the CPC has publically started a timeline for completion of mobilzation, theres much more to be done til we can complete with the US on equal terms(CPC is prediction 30ish years to go)
the entire chinese military is being remade from a force based on numbers and low tech, easy to produce hardware to a more Us style, high tech, expensive, mobile force. this is no small task by any means and takes time, and frankly its probably about right that chinese pilots/trainers were very conservative after all 30 years back a pilot(afterall these guys didnt have alot of training back then) was probably cheaper than the airplane itself(and the airframe was cheap). but it has starting changing greatly, more training, greater economy power, smaller but much more powerful force. the PLAAF is starting to take more risks because it can afford them now. the CPC has publically started a timeline for completion of mobilzation, theres much more to be done til we can complete with the US on equal terms(CPC is prediction 30ish years to go)