Ours aren't very good either.
the top brass' obsession with changing QSRs has cost the IAF dearly.
We are over-dependent on Su-30 MKis.
MiG-21s are still in service. Tejas has just entered IAF.
MiG-29 and Mirages aren't being replaced significantly with either Rafales or anything for that matter. 36 Rafales don't cover.
AMCA is nowhere in sight.
PAKFA is still 3-4 years away.
PLAAF is far more lethal right now with a humongous force of J-10s and J-11s.
Not to mention their J-31 has already started flight testing.
Don't worry about it.
1) FAR more than 36 Rafales are coming (>150)
2) the FGFA will be perhaps the finest 5th gen fighter in service in outright performance when it enters service in 2026
3) the PLAAF is a paper power. Most of their jets are plagued by maintainence issues and they adopt a Russian approach of low training/annual flying hours so their pilots are relatively inexperienced. The IAF follows a western pattern of train as you fight.
4) the Chinese "5th gen" jets will be decades behind the top notch tech of today, they have not been able to overcome their deficit in propulsion or electronics overnight. To think otherwise is foolish, they make cool looking shells that's about it.
5) the MiG-29s and Mirages are being upgraded explicitly to allow them to serve another 12-15 years and they are easily some of the finest jets (post upgrade) in the region.
6) the final MKI fleet will easily be in excess of 320 units and will be upgraded to the "super" standard that will incorporate many of the FGFA's features.
7) the LCA is ramping up production, another line will be given to the private sector and I'm the next 6 years 24/year will be being churned out.
By 2025 India will have the finest air power outside of the US.