A retired F-15 fighter pilot friend told me the following. We were discussing China and their capabilities. He basically said that our aircraft could fire every missile at their disposal, and the Chinese wave would still be coming due to sheer volume of aircraft they have, if they all could get off the ground of course. He also mentioned that our fighter pilots would run circles around the Chinese pilots, based on experience and training. He flat out said that our fighter pilot training is by far the best in the world. A fighter pilot will fly at a minimum 2-3 times a week (if not more), and if not in the cockpit, he/she would be on the Sim conducting more training.
Many years ago, our fighter squadron went to Rostock, Germany to fly with the German's Mig-29s. At that time, we had heard all these great things about this aircraft, about the look down, shoot down capabilities, etc, etc. Our Block 32s F-16s (old acft, I believe we are up to Block 60 F-16Es now) did amazingly against the Mig-29s, on an average of 7-8 Migs killed for every F-16 lost. Oh, and the German fighter pilots were/are probably better trained than the Chinese pilots are.
I'm only giving my perspective from the Air Force side of the house. The Naval Aviators and Marine Fighter Pilots are all excellent pilots with plenty of stick experience and again would fly circles around any enemy pilot.