this guy is just claiming china owns thailand straight up, not even talking about the VT-4; its just that they think they are entitled to another tech tree ramification
Honestly, the anti-sub-tree people and the sub-trees should only bring the unique stuff people are the same people.
Licend built and modified are C&P and not unique to them. If it is part of a “minor nation” (yuck, I hate that term. If it wasn’t for those minors the allies never would have made it back to mainland Europe among other things) and ‘majors’ don’t have any C&P to them(and other nations tech they use is there’s.).
What China needs is not a subtree, but a independent light tank branch. Alternatively, make a branch that specifically includes export-exclusive designs, which can start on tier 4 with some interesting light vehicles. The MBT and VT-4 moved there, WZ foldered under 99A and the space left for a Taiwanese abrams. There are more than enough export vehicles developed by China to fill a tech tree size of probably Japan tier 4 onwards.