Reacting
to recent credible reports that China has leapfrogged from the
production rate of about 40-50 J-20 ‘Mighty Dragon’ fifth-generation
fighters a year to about 120 now, a top official in India’s military
establishment said that the development is a big concern for New Delhi.
“Without
doubt, it is a very big concern, particularly when we suffer from a
scarcity of fighter aircraft,” the official said on condition of not
being identified.
China’s air force spokesperson Senior Colonel
Shen Jinke had stated that the J-20 has been deployed across all five
theater commands including the western one which faces India.
Already
constrained by the significant asymmetry in air power with China, the
new production development will further widen the air power gulf between
India and its northern neighbour.
While the J-20 is a
fifth-generation fighter with stealth capabilities, India’s most
advanced air fighter is the 4.5-generation Rafale which is a French
origin platform from the Dassault stable.
Two factors may have mainly contributed to the scaling up of J-20 production.
First
is the use of the locally-developed Shenyang WS-10 Taihang aero engine
in the J-20 which has replaced the Russian Saturn AL-31 engine. In
effect, China has been able to produce the entire aircraft on its own
eliminating reliance on foreign technology. Notably, a much more
powerful aero-engine WS-15 is also undergoing development.
Second
is the use of the ‘pulsating production line’ which is a far more
mechanized and automatised method of assembling an aircraft with
adjustable platforms precisely setting up and placing different
components of the airframe line cockpits, landing gear, tails etc.
The
J-20 is the world’s third stealth fighter aircraft to be deployed after
the F-22A Raptor and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter both of which are
with the US military.
China usually does not announce the number
of fighters in its fleet but it is believed that in addition to the
existing 200 J-20s, five brigades—55th Air Brigade based at Jining,
131st Air Brigade based at Nanning, 98th Air Brigade at Chongqing, 95th
Air Brigade at Lianyungang and the 97th Air Brigade at Dazu have
received the aircraft in the first half of 2023 alone.
Another fifth-generation stealth fighter is being developed in China that has been codenamed “J-35” or “J-XY”.
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Why would India be scared? Their daddy US media is propping up narative that it is the military power in the Asia Pacific region, outstripping even the Chinese military strenght.
Go check the forums to see how proud Indian nationalists and patriots are by throwing mud in China calling it a paper tiger and Indian soldiers had whipped CCP soldiers at the border.
Did China's youth jobless rate really hit 46.5%?
As if the record-breaking 21.3% unemployment rate for urban youth in June's official survey wasn't disturbing enough, a scholar digging into the data provided a more shocking stat: Fully 46.5% of China's 16- to 24-year-olds were neither employed nor in school in March.
Has China's urban unemployment rate for those ages 16 to 24 climbed to nearly 50%? The short answer is no -- at least not in the way most of the world recognizes this gauge.
According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a country's youth unemployment rate is the ratio of unemployed 15- to 24-year-olds to the overall youth labor force. To qualify as unemployed, one has to be without work but available for work and to have taken active steps to find work in the last four weeks.
China's official jobless rate for urban youth, released monthly by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), uses a more or less similar formula, which is in line with the International Labour Organization's statistical standards. It is calculated by dividing the unemployed -- people who are jobless but have been actively seeking work in the past three months and can start work in two weeks should they get hired -- by the total of employed and unemployed people.
But Zhang Dandan, an associate professor of economics at the National School of Development of Peking University, takes into consideration a third group of youngsters: those who are "not in employment, education or training" (NEET) and also not actively looking for work. The addition of this group explains the outsize figure of 46.5%.
The NBS surveyed unemployment rate for urban dwellers ages 16 to 24 in March was 19.6%.
Only when an estimated 16 million NEET youth not otherwise counted as part of the labor force are added into the numerator and denominator, based on Zhang's calculation, does the rate jump to a staggering 46.5%.
In her op-ed piece on China's potentially underestimated youth unemployment rate published in Caixin last month, Zhang referred to the 16 million people as "full-time children," a buzzword on Chinese social media that is somewhat related to the popular concept of "lying flat."
Young people who lie flat voluntarily drop out of the career rat race and appear to be seeking a more carefree lifestyle. "Full-time children" also lie flat career-wise, but they may be taking up the role of a full-time homemaker, doing chores or taking care of the elderly in exchange for food, shelter and sometimes "salaries" from their parents. Discussions on Chinese social media show that some of them are happy with the status quo, while others are forced to take up the role because of ailing parents, while still others have been looking for jobs or applying for higher education.
Whether the 16 million lying-flat young people should be considered "unemployed" is a matter of debate, Zhang said in an interview with a Chinese media outlet after her data had been cited by multiple media. She wasn't trying to highlight the size of the group, but was rather hoping that they could receive more attention, she said.
India is following the USA and its Anglo Saxon allies, very easily scared and threatened, whenever China does anything they could not compete with or dislike.
It is called the 'China Threat Syndrome' a sickness that became a pandemic since the last decade. No vaccines can prevent that, nor cured that. Another word for that sickness is 'mental disorder' or 'mentally disturbed'. China must be careful as mental patients like this are bound to be violent, irratic, confused, destructive, and above all believe that lying, cheating and stealing is its prerogative.
Wa! Don't look down on India! It's Leading the World
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday hailed the swift roll out of 5G technology in the country and said India is now getting ready for 6G and a task force has been set-up for the same. Addressing the nation on the 77th Independence Day Modi said the internet is now reaching every village and the country is now gearing up for quantum computers.
"My country is the fastest country to roll out 5G. We have reached more than 700 districts and now we are getting ready for 6G. We have formed a task force," Modi said from the ramparts of the Red Fort.
He said the world is going to be influenced by technology and even developed countries are willing to learn about the success of Digital India.
The Americans will praise Modi and India as the most advanced country in the world and the leader in 5G.
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