Last year was a coming-out party for Chinese military power, from the lethal performance of Chinese-made weapons during the India-Pakistan clash in May, to the high-profile rollout of new nuclear and conventional capabilities at President Xi Jinping’s Victory Day parade in September, to year-end exercises simulating a blockade or quarantine of Taiwan with new levels of granularity, speed and assertiveness.
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China Isn’t Just After Taiwan — But the South Pacific, Too
