your life must be pretty lame if this is entertainment. Your standard for comedy is also pretty low. Let me try something, A Romanian, a French walks into a German bar, both get taken over by the Germans. That funny enough for you?
Anyways, you are basing your entire argument on a Reuters article, while I respect their work, they also got my main man Gordon Chang on their staff, and if he is to be believed, we crashed in 2011 and again in 2012, and every year after that.
Chinese engines, at least on ships, have proven their are indigenous, now does that mean we based it on nothing? No, but it does mean we have made improvements and not only this one, but every new engine we come out with will have less and less resemblance to the first engines we sourced from Ukraine.
At this point every major platform is made and designed in China. If we don't have it we will simply wait, like Y-20, J-20, Z-20, Z-18, and all the other programs that we have, we don't even get stop gaps anymore, Chinese weapons needs to be designed and built in China, that's the policy now.
The first of these things may have been European or American or Russian, but that has changed.
With 055,
@ChineseTiger1986 said no equivalent in Europe, you are welcome to come up with something the Europeans are building, to my knowledge, Zumwalt is only American.