A book on the F-CK-1 I that have states that one of the potential adversary aircraft the
Ching-Kuo was designed in mind is the F-16A, a possibility enabled due to "Sino-Soviet Split". I played with the idea a bit, figuring that the US might have also sent some export ordnance, to be replaced by indigenous ones later (in this example, the AIM-9Ps replaced by the PL-5s):
Then one day I was browsing F-16 online and saw
this.
It offends my sensibility as a Nationalist Chinese government loyalist. A fellow member from a what-if forum then came up with the idea of a Spey-powered F-16 derivative, so I ran with it to neutralize the image inflicted upon my mind by the above link:
Re-posting my first forays into proper FD scale graphs for completeness. I am still rather proud of the F-16/79 one as the aircraft does have a special place in my heart.