I'm sorry Demian,
Its one thing to talk about Chinese hardware weaknesses and shortcomings...
its another thing in making European hardware rather exagerated and invincible.
Chinese and European standards are different...Chinese designers and military leaders are not stupid...China and Europe has not fought a war...the Chinese equipement used by Iraqis, Vietnamese that got 'wiped out' were of OLD designs....you have absolutely no proof that China's things are simply 'incapable'.
I don't see you complain against Japanese or SOuth Korean military designs. What weaknesses do they have? Hello Demian...South Korea still uses M113 copies, Godsake, they are obsolete!!!! Hell, Japan's latest IFV has no 40mm gun like CV90, that is obsolete too!!!! BMP-3 is OBSOLETE, even BMP-4 is OBSOLETE (even though the latter has not been made yet)...thats your claims.
Would you regard your 'Boxer' superior to US Stryker? I tell you, that invincible boxer of yours will also crack open if it drove over an IED.
Obsolete or not to your standards, windows or periscopes...
Demian, unlike you,
I appreciate and take pride of a military that has relatively few luxuries compared to the Western nations, that has gone through decades of hell and foreign invasion, and whos military has only really sped its modernisation in the last 15 years for such a huge army.
I take pride of a Chinese air force that has struggled but at least made great strides in its indigenous combat aircraft programmes...unlike the Dutch that has only cooperated with European and AMerican projects to achieve JSF and F-16...gee the Netherlands has little home grown things...