Back in the 1980s, China enjoy a relatively good relation with the west. During this so called “Sino-West Honeymoon period” (a word I saw a Chinese use to describe this moment), PLA incorporate several western technology, both imported and reverse-engineer, into several of their military equipment. You can still see its effect today in that some Chinese equipment look like an amalgamation of both the Soviet and Western technology.
This pretty much ended after the embargo from June 4th incident in 1989, but the west still acted like China still use western equipment sometimes, probably to make themselves feel better or something.
Back in the 1980s, China enjoy a relatively good relation with the west. During this so called “Sino-West Honeymoon period” (a word I saw a Chinese use to describe this moment), PLA incorporate several western technology, both imported and reverse-engineer, into several of their military equipment. You can still see its effect today in that some Chinese equipment look like an amalgamation of both the Soviet and Western technology.
This pretty much ended after the embargo from June 4th incident in 1989, but the west still acted like China still use western equipment sometimes, probably to make themselves feel better or something.