I agree that the notion is ludicrous. Having worked in related fields I can tell you that the CDIC (Chinese Defense Industrial Complex) is still bloated and working out kinks. Their R&D is much better suited and logistics, micro-managing etc . even more so. The infrastructure looks akin to swiss cheese, some things overdeveloped and others very lacking. Unlike the Russians, however, China does not NEED its arms export money to support the economy; meaning that there is a serious trickle down effect when it comes to what the subordinate countries are getting (this equates to older Shenyang fighter planes, T-59 battle tanks, HY-2 Silkworm S2S and small arms generally.) Most indigenous concepts like the Z-10 will never be exported and China intends to keep things this way. Despite how our country opened up its previously Maoist standards some things are still done by an old, dusty, but sometimes useful book, like the antithesis of Tian Dao
辵 道.
