You also lose 2 perfectly good pilot.

Tactical win vs Strategic victory.

You can have 1 Billion people but your training system
may only produce half of the skilled pilots.

Remember, China is lacking by a huge gap in flight
similation software AND hardware. You can crank out
1 million planes, but can you fly them?

Also, 零星的空战 "win" does not give you air superiority.

The former Yugoslavia shot down an F/A117, but so what,
their president died in prison...