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by 394549 2881 days ago
> this article has overestimated china's tech level, naive.

It's not bad to overestimate your adversary's tech level. The US developed the far-superior F-15 because it overestimated the capabilities and role of the Mig-25.

In this case, the overestimation could spur policy and technology decisions to increase security.