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A large parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China was held recently in Beijing. It included the top Chinese Communist Party leadership of the present such as Xi Jinping and his predecessors Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin.
Also included was a military display of 15,000 troops along with assorted military hardware including cutting edge military hardware such as China’s supersonic DF-17 missile that can hit anywhere in the United States within 30 minutes.
China does not come close to matching America’s military might toe-to-toe since, for example, America’s 18 Ohio-Class nuclear submarine each equipped with 24 Trident missiles, with each capable of delivering independently-targetable eight 100 kiloton warheads as just a component of the overall land, sea, and air nuclear triad in support of the rest of America’s military assets makes the ending of any hot war a foregone consclusion despite the relative number of military personnel involved.
Furthermore, China does not match the economic might and political leadership of the United States.
