Will be fun to see China's light-medium advanced fighter (FC-31) go head-to-head in the marketplace with Russia's, assuming the Russian type ever flies. Then you have Turkey etc too. Interesting times ahead. 
Korea, China, even Turkey have fairly strong domestic support. Russia on the other hand, they would have to make some very tough decisions to make room for their new jet in their own air forces. Need a foreign partner to offset development etc.
If Russia's is single-engine, that would be a big deal. Getting a modernized fighter that leverages lessons from Su-57 & some avionics etc is likely regarded as highly important to their tactical jet export industry. Get entry & operational costs down w/some LO & new avionics etc
It is more than just selling the jet. Manned/unmanned teaming airframes and UCAVs as well could be packaged with weapons etc. Provide the infrastructure/primary platform you get a lot of downstream opportunities that didn't exist 10 years ago.
Probably should do a post on some of these abstract elements to all this.
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