Why the US Military worries about Chinese Air Power

The Chinese Army Air Force (People's Liberation Army Air Force) has not been getting that much attention in the West compared to Russia. Here is why that might be a mistake.

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Sources -
Justin Bronk, Whitehall Reports: Russian and Chinese Combat Air Trends: Current Capabilities and Future Threat Outlook, 30 October 2020, available at: https://rusi.org/explore-our-research...

Recommendations -
Andreas Rupprecht, Modern Chinese Warplanes: Chinese Air Force - Aircraft and Units, Harpia Publishing: 2018, https://www.amazon.com/modern-chinese...

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Timecodes -
00:00 - Intro
00:28 - Expert: Justin Bronk
01:02 - The Chinese (Army) Air Force until uow
04:33 - Why should we care?
07:50 - The J-10: The Return of the Light-Weight Fighter(?)
11:13 - The J-16: The Best Flanker?
16:01 - The J-20: Stealth but not really?
20:52 - China overtaking Russia in basically everything?
27:22 - Crews and Command & Control
30:30 - How could China use their (Army) Air Force?
35:40 - Recommendations

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