AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
If someone charges China is copying, I will argue that the insides probably won't be anything like what's being charged as being copied so it's not really copying except for the shell. To charge copying is to charge everything inside and out is exactly the same to say China can't do anything new. If the FC-31 is charged with being a copy of the F-35, then how come the FC-31 has two engines while the F-35 has only one? The components are going to be different based on capabilities. So if China can still make whatever they're being charged with copying still work similarly with different components, why bother with making it look like what's being copied? They can easily make it not look the same. They do it because they want to convey China is on par with an establish success. If every other country sees China is just copying, why doesn't China just design the shell differently? The insides are already different. It's because Beijing is only concerned with making the Chinese people believe the communist in power are advancing Chinese society as a whole thus legitimizing their control over the country. The citizens of any country generally are not going to be as knowledgeable and sophisticated to know the truth. The Chinese aren't going to fool themselves into believing they're superior to the US. You can make them believe they're on par though with something as simple as making it look and work similarly. The Chinese can be argued with as being more than average but they still can be very superficial.