Just stumbled arcross this website:
https://www.ticketspecialists.com/concert/guns_n_roses_tickets.htmThere stating a 2005 release:
....Reports issued by the band in 2001 and 2002 claimed that Chinese Democracy was to be released later that year by Interscope/Geffen Records, with whom they had apparently patched up their differences (if any). It is set to release in
2005......
....Discography
Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide (1986)
Appetite for Destruction (1987)
G N' R Lies (1988)
Use Your Illusion I (1991)
Use Your Illusion II (1991)
The Spaghetti Incident? (1993)
Chinese Democracy
(2005)....
I think they need to update there website very soon.....................into a 200X release