China just started using its Chengdu J-20 fighter jets, a military official announced last week via state-run Xinhua News Agency. China will probably focus on its coasts and land borders, the most likely sites of skirmishes given China’s turbid neighbor relations. They are:But China’s J-20 would also be a tough rival against the American-made, U.S. Air Force’s hundreds of F-35 fighter jets. The United States is the “only country with a fully operational fifth-generation fighter,” think tank Center for Strategic & International Studies says in this analysis of the J-20. China and the United States, two old Cold War foes, regularly disagree now over geopolitical issues, though decades of dialogue have reduced the threat of war to near zero.

Source: Forbes October 03, 2017 09:00 UTC