I remember that talk, he gave a very specific example from this to show the state of Russian electronics.
One request from PLAAF was for the interfaces to be in Chinese. Russians figured how hard could that be, just do a translate and find and replace in the code and agreed. But when they actually got down to do it it turned out to be unexpectedly difficult: the MFD's resolution were fine for displaying cyrillic letters, but when trying to display the more complex Chinese characters it wasn't up to the job and result was unreadable blur. They looked into upgrading the MFD and concluded it was either too difficult or not worth their trouble and the whole thing ended up in the too hard basket and PLAAF pilots instead had to learn the Russian interface.
