Next time American warships violate Chinese waters near Taiwan, the Chinese airforce should test your theory out .
A lot of western countries have been generously giving you a chance to show how much better these fighter jets are as compared to the shoddy western stuff. But your spokesman proves to be more active than your AF.
Maybe they can test out their "superior" stuff.
China gives them so many opportunities to start something. We'll wait for Taiwan to declare independence or for US and Japan to do something every time we violate Miyako Strait. China generously gives them ample opportunity to show off every time we fly through Taiwan and sail through Miyako Strait.
Also China is still waiting for India to block Malacca Strait. Ample opportunity for India but Indian mouths are busier than their muscles and brains.
The US wanted to create kinetic war instead of political war with China back in the late 2000s. Preparations and getting their media and population willing was done. China revealed A2AD weapons which made Obama engage only in political sphere with his pivot to Asia in a longer game of strategic influence over Asian nations. USA and China vying for regional influence through economic clout.
USA wanted to be able to counter ASBM. While they improved SPY-3 and SPY-6 with SM-6 and newer interceptors, China needed to upgrade A2AD as well and that came next decade in the form of HGVs and HCMs. Combined with much improved nuclear MAD options. The aim is to hold the military engagement back and not as option for US so they can only engage in political sphere. Over time, this is ineffective for US and economic warfare is where this war is fought and won unless US wants to go kinetic and die together. China's entire strategy is to simply prevent the US from having kinetic war option so that China's economy inevitably overtakes in time. Taiwan civil war issue will resolve itself once economic dominance secures military and then political dominance. Civil war reasons themselves are already over. Taiwan side wanted a strong China and now they already have it. Their original reasons and objections to CCP have already been resolved. The rest is simply overcome with one or at most two more generations. The older Taiwanese generation that fought and lived through the civil war wanted China to be nationalistic and strong. A superpower in the full sense not the indian way. They did not believe CCP could rule China well and make it into true power and restore Chinese influence and status. Now the trends and results even are clear to all who can view the world without delusion or misunderstanding. China is on the correct path and even its strategies employed to get there is passable despite faults and errors. Give it 10 years and what is obvious to us now will be more obvious to every observer. Give it 20 and the result of this struggle is clear to all. Give it 30 years and I would wager that the journey is complete.
In 30 years, India would either be partitioned and balkanized due to internal collapse from genuinely poor leadership (as opposed to only being criticized by its enemies of poor leadership like China), or in a similar state with even more poor and destitute people who are struggling as India's population still rises and then plateaus inevitably and eventually but the poor and rich divide in India will be even greater. There is a small chance that India has revolutions and begins a similar journey. All these things are natural forces. There is only so far the Indian resources can be used to keep things as they are and so far the downtrodden Indians will remain on their knees.
The engine of prosperity for China has ironically been a good form of well managed authoritarianism. If we didn't have that, we'd be like India. When the purpose of this authoritarianism is fulfilled, people naturally demand more rights and individual freedoms. At that point which is a few decades away, Taiwanese of that generation who are not even born yet would look to mainland far far more favorably. They will see little difference and the propaganda they are still fed now will seem out of place. By then if the mainland has improved social liberties, then the civil war issue would be resolved naturally.
The key is for PRC to finish its journey of development and progress of which it started in the 1970s and is only around half complete. Even at this less than half way mark, China is at its current form. As the journey completes, there would be far less requirement for the previous level of authoritarianism. Again the cycle means when those good rules are lifted slowly, people decline and society decays and the cycle continues to downfall. Good times create bad people, bad people create bad times, bad times create good people. In most cases when the people are naturally capable of even creating good times.
To use simple and overall quantitatively derived visual (as comprehensive, impartial, and accurate as possible by the American Ray Dalio). This is currently where nations now stand.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/big-cycles-over-last-500-years-ray-dalio
Just to zoom out in perspective.
