China displayed its Chengdu J-20 stealth fighter in public for the first time on the function of opening the country’s biggest meeting of aircraft makers and buyers with a show of its military power.

• U.S. F-22 and Russian Su-57 are widely accepted to be air superiority fighters with secondary interceptor and strike roles, and even aircraft like F-35 are intended to field serviceable air superiority characteristics.
• Some arguments backing up J-20’s interceptor/strike theory is doctrine driven, suggesting the J-20 was intended to specifically operate in the PLA’s so-called “anti-access, area denial” strategy.