Recent publications (such as the attachment) have highlighted China’s dramatic improvements in naval power. It’s not just China’s navy. The army & air force, as well as rocket force, have dramatically improved their capabilities in the last decade. And modernization is only starting, now with a powerful coal-fired economic engine to generate it. “It” may well end up being far more than just a military of just a China that we recognize on maps today. “It” may be a far different looking and behaving China than what we have seen in nearly two centuries.
