pretty bold statement given that the same corruption that leads to ineffective military equipment would push down to the operators of it.
There is 0 evidence the Chinese military is a professional one. Perhaps they are but that is now just another worry exposed to China after this literal flawless victory where the US figuratively dunked on them with the side mission.
The people who would have trained the operators ARE the Chinese military BTW.
It's a bold statement because it is true.
Why else would the U.S. be so upset at Turkey for buying Russian S-400 SAM systems that the U.S. banned sales of the F-35 to Turkey, even though Turkey was one of the founding program partners and was set to be both a final assembly facility and the primary depot-level maintenance for European-based F-35s?
Because they didn't want the Russians to get targeting data from the S-400 radar tracking Turkish F-35s flying around Ankara. If the system were so ineffective then the U.S. wouldn't have cared.
And I wouldn't be so dismissive of the PLA, PLAAF, or the PLAN. Sure, they have a lot of cannon fodder on the payroll, but their techs and weapons officers are not to be ignored.