Well the one thing that gives me doubts is the boldness of the PLAAF commander, they dont usually bost so much for sake of loosing face if it were not to happen. There must be something there to give it such confidence and making a JF-17 or J-10 wouldnt give an industry suddenly to say that it can make a F-22 beater if it did not have some backing from some place..

not unknown for countries to help others a bit under the radar.

There are just soo many few occurances in my life reading all these news that i have seen a Chinese comander to be so uber confident of a system that did not even exist. Mind you cant generalise.

It is possible they have some aircraft design already and a program going on but i feel part is propaganda, generals usually say we will but engineers are not so optimistic, a nation like Russia and the US have taken decades to build a fifth generation, so far China has not shown it has most of technologies, Russia has shown the Su-35BM with supercruise and super agility, the US showed the F-15 with TVC but in China`s case is only rethoric with almost no evidence.
In my opinion they are probably going to build the J-XX fighter for sure but it won`t be inducted as fast as the general says.

To me it sounds more like the Chinese do not want to be left behind since the PAK FA will fly soon and they need something to say we are not behind

Nice schemed Kazakh Mig 27 😎

Lovely aircraft

If the USAF had something “ahead” of the F-22A, they wouldn’t have been trying to buy over 300 Raptors. Beginning to develop a follow-on now would be a smart move, because they could take a whole lot of time to do it and theoretically keep the costs down in 15-20 years when they have to build one. Besides, if there is a more advanced fighter in the USAF, it’s only going to be around in very small numbers, numbers which would make it basically irrelevant in a full-scale war against China or Russia (unlikely events though they may be).

And OF COURSE they’ll want to say its better than the F-22. If that’s not what they’re aiming for, then there isn’t really a point.

well of course is a guess, but since the F-22 program was killed, the F-35 seems to be less capable and China and Russia are developing fighters to be better than the F-22, the dilema can only have some simple answers

A) the american intelligence assesment is Russia is not building a fighter superior to the F-22 and China is in less advanced stages than the PAK FA so no need for additionl F-22 and its follow up replacement for at least a decade

B) they have something better or they will have something better in one decade. I mean they must have the technologies to develop the 6th generation fighter now.

C) or their economy does not allow them to build it like Russia was in the early 1990s that had the technologies but not the money.

According to Chinese media, including official CCTV, the next generation fighter after J-10 will take maiden flight very soon.
Variant voice from different side of designers said that we are confident our new generation fighter will go ahead of the F-22 and it needs 10 years to surpass the F-22 to both.
A via commander also said 8-10 years should be waiting for entrance service of the new fighter.

everything is possible but the americans perhaps are working is something better than the F-22, in the same way the F-117 was designed, they are not going to wait and let the F-22 being surpassed.