I think you guys are expecting too much from China's industrial base at that juncture or even this one.
The Chinese transport aircraft industry was basically non-existent. Except for some clones of small or middling 1960s or older Soviet aircraft. They started providing outsourced work of parts for Western aircraft builders. Now they were doing joint aircraft development with foreign partners. This is not dumb. It reduces the risk the project will fail completely because of lack of domain expertise. Perhaps some components will need to be made native later. But the fact the development was more incremental and expertise was built up gradually was done for a reason. In the end this will save time and make a better product.
China was pursuing a similar model to the one used for the high speed train development. That worked well and there is little reason to think it won't this time either. There might be some bumps along the way and sanctions but it will get done.
The Chinese transport aircraft industry was basically non-existent. Except for some clones of small or middling 1960s or older Soviet aircraft. They started providing outsourced work of parts for Western aircraft builders. Now they were doing joint aircraft development with foreign partners. This is not dumb. It reduces the risk the project will fail completely because of lack of domain expertise. Perhaps some components will need to be made native later. But the fact the development was more incremental and expertise was built up gradually was done for a reason. In the end this will save time and make a better product.
China was pursuing a similar model to the one used for the high speed train development. That worked well and there is little reason to think it won't this time either. There might be some bumps along the way and sanctions but it will get done.
I noted you should continue this discussion in the engine thread, but simply NOT in the tanker & transport thread since the CJ-1000A is NOT aimed for the Y-20. 
