We’ll be hearing reports like this downplaying China’s technical prowess right up to the day it’s announnced they have orbiting nuclear weapons platforms. So just relax and enjoy your ball games and celebrity news.
They wont be far behind when they do it the Chinese way:steal it, copy it, patent it..
It’s interesting how the Chinese government and military officials routinely makes outlandish comments like this.
There was a comment by a Chinese military official that Chinese Jet engines were 40 years behind the west.
Another comment by a Chinese science/tech minister a couple of years ago that China is over 100 YEARS behind the United States in technology.