China barter.I don’t think it will work well as export, except maybe to the most trusted allies.
Shenyang went out and asked 70 million $ for it, IF the buyer also paid for remaining program. And that was before the redesign. F-35A runs for about 80-90 million $, and that’s a whole plane with no strings attached.
With the redesign, it’s slated to be very deadly, too deadly to sell. And it would also be prohibitively expensive.
Thailand barters Chinese high-speed rail with rice.
And j31 potentially be the only thing in the market that can counter F35. If your life depend on this.