it looks like nothing new. looks like they stole our designs and copied them. cheap copies, probably look impressive, but are paper dragons.
The B-2 knockoff is a little interesting.
Not paper dragons. Any more than the Zero fighter of WW2 was a cheap copy of a failed Northrop design, as legend would have it. The Japanese were (and are) pretty smart engineers, and the Chinese are even better. There was a wry joke back as far as the 1960s (my college days) that it you walked into the first day of an engineering class and found the front rows full of Chinese, and the prof was known to grade on a curve, you’d better transfer out in the next 24 hours.
Telling yourself that the Chinese machinery is just cheap copies is delusional. Anyway, the main capability lies in the manufacturing technology, the electronics and the software, and they’ve been lifting THAT from us at a horrifying rate. With the connivance of all to many (mostly Dem) politicians, one must add. And even the best engineer will ALWAYS copy as much as he can, before he starts innovating. It’s simple economics. I do it all the time.
We are going to see a serious war with China within your lifetimes. (Maybe not mine, however.) Do not shrug off this challenge, the way we shrugged off Japan in the 1920s and ‘30s. The Chicoms are already running a pretty aggressive cyber-war against us, but they know as well as anybody that boots on the astro-turf is what holds land masses, and they expect to be doing that sooner or later.
Germany coalesced out of a seething mass of small nation-states in late 19th century and, once fully integrated, it just HAD to challenge Britain for hegemony in Europe and abroad. Out of that, we got WW1.
Modern China has been sintered together by the Communists out of a seething mass of feudal fiefdoms, and is going to do the same thing. It seems to be human nature.