You genuinely have poor reading comprehension. Okay let me walk you through this, laser weapons require extremely high grade manufacturing and electronics to produce. China is a leader in this.
Chinese metallurgy is top tier and they have all the rare earth production there as a result. This is very important for battery technology, which is critical for lasers. They will have plasma batteries for aircraft eventually, but that's not important for this stuff right now. The energy density requirements for aircraft are ridiculous. They may need parallel anti aircraft drones to fly along with next gen fighters that carry directed energy weapons in appropriate conditions.
I'm not debating you point by point your overall view of their military and tech capabilties seems to be from the 90s
You're just talking to an American who has investment experience, sorry that we care about actual facts instead of Reddit karma. Karma doesn't depreciate because it's completely worthless, like you.
By the way, you're really stupid if you're taking any article that has a big red laser seriously. You should know what a freaking laser looks like man. Grow the FUCK up