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They're catching up, though (not that I think that's necessarily a good thing).

5 years ago they hadn't yet put a man in space. In the 60s they still had cavalry. Like with horses. They are closing the gap in some things, but the degrees of change are different the more advanced you go. the diference between 60's and 70's tech is no where near as great as the difference between 90's and 00's tech.

Aircraft. They just built their first home grown fighter and it is the equivalent of an F-16. That is 30 years behind. Their best airframes are still foriegn.

Warships: After 30 years of R&D they still have no carrier. They ever bought two from Russia and still can't make it work. Their newest supposedly "advanced" DDGs just mounted phased arrays, 26 years behind the US. Their nuke subs are 60's era as far as capabilities. Their one ballistic nuke sub will sink intself if used, assuming it works at all.

Basically all China does is wait for long enough for shareware to come out. After 26 years world technical expertise will advance enough that anyone can build a phased array radar, it is no longer state of the art. Meanwhile we are about to field the DDG-1000 with the next revolution in military sensors.

If you think about it, what equipment does China have that is the ****, something no one can touch?