jessmo112 wrote:So do you think they will our produce the F-35?
Nope but J-20 will surely be build in noticeable larger numbers then F-22. 60 planes per year even it production last a decade is 600 planes.
J-31 is what they are planing to be their F-35. So if they plan to build ~600 J-20 I expect they will build twice more J-31.
Btw asian NATO is problematic, members don't love each other, Japan and Korea are in trade war and Korea is playing on Chinese card to be less depend from Japan, Taiwan and Japan have senkaku problem.
Smaller economies are quite dependent on Chinese market so joining some anti chinese military alliance would impact economy heavily, that would be big problem for Australia too.
And on top of that is falling US. Economical recesion which can turn in depresion, mini street wars (I can only imagine what will happen if Trump lost and call its dudes to streets in November) so anti China alliance I would say that train was left station years or even decade ago (before 2008 it could happen).