We have to respect China where they graduate over 500,000 engineers each year.
Also note that many of their leaders are engineers, not lawyers.
The Chinese people are quite nationalistic and are happy that China’s restored economic might has made her into a powerful nation again.
While it is true that their espionage operations have been extensive and quite successful, I would not be surprised if their new radar systems relied mostly on their own developments.
The technical principles on how to defeat stealth technology have been known publicly for over 25 years, at least to aerospace engineers.
If the USA wants to remain as the technology leader, we have to streamline our technology development and weapon system development apparatus. I was an aerospace engineer for decades and I have been appalled at the incredible tangle of bureaucracy and political infighting that slows our fielding of new systems while making them outlandishly expensive.
Norm Augustine in his book, “Augustine’s Laws”, forecast decades ago that the rising cost per aircraft would eventually allow the entire DoD budget to purchase ONE per year.
We’re almost there.
Sounds like you cut the paperwork and let every use the 13 steps of Kelly Johnson / Ben Rich and get the heck out of their way until a prototype is flown and or the systems you are integrating are ready to be tested on a given platform.