Shows off, but has yet to see real field use?

That's the problem with China's weapons, decent & some good ideas, but only used for PR demos and limited training exercises: China's army isn't deployed much anywhere mind that alliances, hence none of these hitech gadgets have seen real field use. You stick a jarhead operating this on a night mission in a firefight and guarantee this these things malfunction or outright fail. There's a difference between "experimental" to "battle tested".

Now their space program to auto industry are in a much better states, but that's from collaboration with the US and other western countries: collaboration works.