A look at a future super-sized transport for the PLAAF. From a mainland science mag.

Yep, spine spine spine 😀
Seriously, I’ve already demonstrated the existance of that spine using other pictures. Go a few pages back.

Now, why would we need you to demonstrate a spine? 😀

Every two-seater has one for fairing in the second seat. If you want to keep any semblance of the single-seater’s performance, you have to fair in the raised hump that results from the second seat. It doesn’t matter if it’s an A-4, EF2000 or J-10.

Taiwanese are really scared right now

Not really, if they were really scared, trade and investment between China and Taiwan wouldn’t have gone up massively in the first part of the year when Taiwan’s election rhetoric was harshest.(1)

Money will always flee unstable regions for somewhere safer if people think there will be comflict.

The China and Taiwan situation has more and more Taiwanese investing in and moving to China every year. A little less than five percent of Taiwan’s population live in China (Over 1 million in a population of over 20m) now with the number increasing sharply every year.

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(1) http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific_business/view/109333/1/.html
” TAIPEI : Two-way trade between Taiwan and China in the first seven months of the year reached 34.41 billion dollars, up 40.1 percent from a year ago on the back of robust demand for electronic goods, official data released Thursday showed.”

According to a Chinese-language posting on the J-11, the WS-10 was based not on the AL31 that some western pubs had assumed but from Chinese study of western (especially American) civilian turbofans for over two decades.

WS10A – F110 – AL31 – PB199 – M88-2
nation China – US – Russia – Europe – France
service entry year 2005 – 1987 – 1985 -_ – 1996
thrust/weight ratios 7.5 – 7.57 – 7.1 – 8 – 8.5
turbine wheels the temperature (K) 1747 – 1750 – 1665 – 1590 – 1850
thrust augmentations 全推力 (kN) 13200 – 13227 – 12500 – 9000 – 8000

According to some posts there are over 100 WS-10A examples built since 2003. The WS-10A factors greatly into the decision to not buy the Su-27SM upgrade.