^ Actually, if anything, China's track record of absorbing technologies and indigenizing them
proves precisely that it's successfully absorbing stealth technologies and making its own stealth fighter.
This is China's unique capability, it is second to none. Rarely does China actually get to dissect an actual foreign military gear to replicate it, nor does it get any blueprints. (The Flankers are one of the few exceptions.) But despite this, China manages to gather enough data and information to be able to indigenize so many things -- even the Meteor AAM!
China's technological progress is only growing, not slowing down. It's actually funny that some folks in the West think China's technological progress is not "really" technological progress -- and make up all sorts of reasons why it's some freak phenomenon and not really authentic, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Anyway, the rumors are that J-XX has done wind-tunnel testing (full sized, not a model). It looks more and more like it will enter service by ~2013. In the meantime, you might want to look into the modified J-10 that is already being test flown and hopefully will enter service quite soon
It's absolutely imperative for J-XX to be at least capable of 1200+ km combat radius. Otherwise, it would be mostly used for close-in defense, and not to project power, which greatly constrains the PLA.
