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In the case of Japan, you should know that it was occupied by the US and even nuked by it, do you think the US is not scared of a militarized Japan again?The Chinese investment doesn't contradict my thoughts, you should go read up on my posts. I may be one of the few people on here who know the investments inflows to Pakistan a lot more than you can imagine.
Chinese investments and strategic offensive weapons are two VERY different things and entirely opposite in perspective. For example, the US and Japan do hundreds of billions of trade, but the US has refused to sell the -22 to it. Japan is the US's one of the biggest trading partner for decades. Same thing with Israel, Israel is one of our closes allies. But the US government refused to provide -22 to them. Instead they offered the -35 (which still is years advanced than anything their opponents have, but still, saying no to Israel is a huge deal).
So, both Japan and Israel are very strong organizations, both financially, trade wise and militarily. And Pakistan has just embarked herself on a long economic journey......so a LOT of differences. It won't be easy for Pakistan to get the Chinese to sell her tech related to the J-31, period. You can happily live in your dream world.
You can better compare the ToT from China to Pakistan with that of yours with Usrael; Pakistan said openly that it is going for the J-31 not the J-20, that is like the F-35 vs the F-22.
Its backward is evident in its inability to leverage all that intelligence effectively. Trying to use the economics excuse has gone old on Pakistan. The corruption and mediocrity within its R&D department is plentiful enough to see projects shuttling about in nothing more than files.
As for your ideals of procurement, you could not be more wrong.. Pakistan makes ONLY what it cannot procure easily from any source. Which means Pakistan only makes something when it know that it is near impossible for it to ensure a steady supply of that item. Otherwise it is very happy procuring things that are available at much cheaper rates than it would take to make them. We are not India,and have no ambitions to try and climb up the steep steps of total indignization and shoot ourselves in the foot multiple times along the way.
The Afghan war quagmire added to a natural disaster had a very negative impact on Pakistan's economy, add to it foreign conspiracies from India, the US and Usrael to ferment internal havoc called terrorism, and you can see that the economy played a large part in that inability of leveraging all the potential of Pakistan's brains and intelligence, the war in Afghanistan and the internal conflicts imposed a big toll on Pakistan as a whole.
You have got the whole thing about procurements wrong. The whole world functions like that, even China buys foreign weapon systems, because they are readily available and good stop gaps when one is developing its own.