Let's stay calm about these public opinions. In recent years, U.S. F-16s, F-18s, F-35s, and various drones have crashed numerous times, yet I haven't seen many people dismiss the U.S. military as a paper tiger. Similarly, the downing of Rafales and Su-30s by J-10Cs doesn't affect our objective assessment of these aircraft's performance. Regarding the tank barrel explosion incident, we should await the subsequent investigation report before making judgments. The recent backlash in public opinion stems from years of Western propaganda.
United States didn't need to proof anything because they love to bomb some herders at the desert. China can also do that, by bombing Taiwan, Japan and Philippine. But is that what they want?
By this logic, then China should not export any weapons. Do you really have confidence those new potential buyers of J-10CE will not crash their planes in the most stupid way? Ultimately, the people using those weapons are major factors affecting the outcome of battles.
That depend. China exports weapons have a lot of benefits. The problem is that Norinco after sales service is really-really bad. They ignore the complain from the buyers. And that's including my country military. We bought an CIWS Type 730, If I'm not mistakenly remember. And it was malfunction, kill one of our soldiers. We complained to Norinco, but no respond at all. The military was angry. So they open the weapon by themselves and found that the broken parts was a copy of Russian CIWS. Because of the grudge, they bring it to online via media social in my country. Claiming that China weapon is a junk. And now, Norinco VT-4 MBT also has a trouble. So I think the problem is not China should not export, but to solve this VT-4 problem better for publicity. But knowing Norinco History, there are a great deal of chance that they will stay silence and ignore the complain. Thus bring the negative publication in Thailand.
You have to remember, Thailand and Indonesia are in South East Asia. Close to Taiwan, Japan, and Philippine. And you know it right now, China has a political tit for tat with Japan. China did quite many things. Like conducting military training near japan. Of course, you won't spend million of RMB just for nothing. It is China model of Gunboat Diplomacy. To strike the Japanese people heart and make them retract their statement. But because of this VT-4, suddenly those billion RMB will wasted for nothing. Those gun boat diplomacy won't give any effect to Japan anymore.
So China doesn't need to stop their export. They just need to push Norinco to settle this problem, profesionally. Or if they can't just arrest their boss for corruption.
