There is only one country in the world which would design a horrendously inferior fighter jet , get it built with Chinese assistance who love publicity more than building fighter planes, still go around publishing a million photographs on all possible forums and try to sell it undercost ($15 million) and include lowest possible grade electronics and avionics in the plane.
Do you know who that country is ..... Pakistan.
You know which fighter jet I am talking about .... JF- 17
Just because, India about ten times larger country economically next door has built it a LCA, Pakistan must build one.
Pakistan could have spent all that money to buy F-16 or Grippen. You would need half that number than JF-17s and still be ahead.
China is a master of reverse engineering. Hence the plane would look impressive. But when it comes to technology and metallurgy behind it, electronics to fly it into the battle and weapons it would fire to kill the enemy, Chinese have not stolen enough technology to master to build modern day combat worthy jet fighters. French are no fools to sell the Pakistanis the best electronics even if you buy just the shell from China and install French electronics. It still is a cheap copy. It is no different than $20 Rolex watch sold on the streets of Shanghai compare to $10,000 for the real stuff. A cheap copy is cheap anytime.