Lucky, I think we are now both showing our ages. Tiananmen Square still to this day stands vividly in my mind, what the weather was, where I was living, etc can be recalled quickly when asked where were you when you saw the tanks roll in. June, 1989, Mt Home in the kitchen, sunny weather and it was lunch time. Just like for many posters in 20+ yrs from now they will recall the crisis in Egypt that is occurring today. Certain political events will always stay in your mind. Point is for some they are too young to recall China 21 yrs ago and what they did to their people when they only see now, and not yrs past.
I do think China is willing to play fast and hard with the rules, anything to fool their people.
I do not fear them because if that is all they got when showing their air superiority, you know that they have nothing at all, and this was all about propaganda.
You know for all the talk about their technology, maybe they should find better tech people if they use a scene from a movie that is probably the most famous fighter movie in the world.
Than again I guess because they have such a hard control on what their citizens see, that the techs didn't realize that passed the Great Wall, even now, every 18 yo in a free society today knows the line...I feel the need for speed! They probably thought it was a no-name movie because nobody in China got the chance to see it.