That’s the neat part, if the US is always dragging their feet on actually making their new Wunderwaffen, then they can claim the Chinese plane is an inferior copy regardless of the actual specs of the plane, because it is being compared to a hypothetical plane that doesn’t actually exist
It might be a bad copycat version, we’ll know for sure once the burgers actually make one of theirs.
That’s the neat part, if the US is always dragging their feet on actually making their new Wunderwaffen, then they can claim the Chinese plane is an inferior copy regardless of the actual specs of the plane, because it is being compared to a hypothetical plane that doesn’t actually exist