"dude, have you seen the performance of harriers against F-15s and F16s, they suck against modern fighter aircraft, now against a mig-21 the harrier will likely win, but face it the vstol aircraft wasn't designed with an air-superiority role in mind, its built for ground or naval interdiction"
yes, and the CHinese dont have F15's or F16's. hell they intercepted our P3 with an F8. We are talking Vietnam era here. The Taiwanese however do have F16's. Not to mention American Backing.
They don't have F16s but they do have Su-27s and Su-30s, and also J-10s which are F16 equivalents, moreover I thought the whole point of the lease is if the chinese launch a missle barrage to take out taiwan's airfields so that its F16s would be useless, in any case, Tawian doesn't have the missles to strike china, so what is your point?