China’s military might threatens western air supremacy in Pacific

We are not very prepared as Nato or western nations for the big ‘what if’ — what if we can’t get air superiority?...This is an area where the US and the West more generally has been inculcated into the idea that we are almost guaranteed superiority,” he told The Times. “There’s been an assumption that this is an area where they [China] would take years to catch up.”