Helpfull Stacker, I know HAL and their extensive R&D infrastructure. Then India has a technology friendly education culture and many, many tallented engineers, that all speak English and studied everywhere. Still, somehow, they don't come close in achieving of what China does.
In another topic I pasted together recent ongoing projects. Many are improved copies of Western designs. Many are not and we have to get used to that new reality, as lowe flieger noticed. It ain't as it always used to be..
