The ignorance just oozes from that article.
First, the EM "drive" is NOT an Albarcurie warp drive, and it does not have enough thrust to out do current chemical rockets. Put one in operation on the Earth's surface and all it will do is eat electricity and heat up, it will never move because thrust levels are on the micro-newton scale, which might be useful for satellite station keeping, but not as a space drive, as there is no indication that it can scale up. The reported thrust levels are still within or damn close the error of measurement, so there may or may not be anything significant happening. More testing is needed and not on the ground, but put up a test satellite where this is used for station keeping. If it puts out enough thrust to keep the satellite properly oriented, then yes, it works. Even if it can scale up significantly, using one to leave earth orbit will leave the passengers dead of radiation exposure due to excessive time in the Van Allen belts. You would need a power plant on the order of size of an Nimitz class carrier to get significant thrust, and even then accelerations will be very low as the power plants will weigh thousands of tons, with no guarantees they will work properly on zero g environments. and even producing a working 80 mw orbiting power plant, inefficiencies in the EM drive will produce heat and require cooling systems to keep the large EM drive from melting itself, adding even more parasite weight.
As for the Chinese announcements, they have offered NO proof, so I take it as their inferiority complex talking.
