I am also noticing this drastic shift. The comments on this article seems... almost too normal? It gives me the creeps
It’s perfectly understandable. Since Christmas 2024 we’ve seen the China-dissing talk points getting debunked one by one.
1) Chinese fighter jets are always less advanced than Western ones — dispelled by unveiling of not one but two sixth gen’s before F-47 left the canvas.
2) Chinese fighter jets are always knock offs of Western or Russian designs — where are American/Russian doritoes?
3) Chinese fighter jets don’t have combat experience — 6:0 on May 7th through network centric warfare with J-10C and AWACs. PL-15 achieved longest kill in human history against one of the most advanced 4.5th gen Western fighter aircraft that cost lik 5 times as much.
At this point only the most delusional NAFO people (95 percent of whom are Chinese libs and Jai Hinds) still dismiss the potency of Chinese military hardware. So when half a dozen CCAs are unveiled they have no choice but to take it seriously.