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Here are some links: https://spacenews.com/chinese-rocket-companies-are-preparing-for-hop-tests/

Sorry i don't follow it as closely anymore, the Long March rockets are still mostly "old school" but the are launching quite a few of them. The have a few private players who are trying the VTVL 1st stage reuse (Falcon 9 copy) - now that SpaceX has shown this works all Chinese (and everyone...

IMO ISRO should be working on something like this, they should start with a clean slate and design a modern yet achievable partially re-usable medium lift vehicle. The current strategy of slow incremental improvement on decades old designs while showing PPTs of ramjet scramjet wet dream RLV...

I have not watched the latest video, but if it is the same specs as the one released a some time last year or so, then it appalling an ISRO official can claim they can do it with in the next 10 years. Ok so lets breakdown this vehicle or at least the first stage that is supposed to be reusable...

"Air-breathing TSTO TD to have first flight later this decade!" If he is talking about about an actual vehicle that will go to space? At this point the a regular TSTO is all that's looking realistic by end of the decade. A TSTO with turbojet-ramjet-scramjet is pro ultra max hopium overdoze.