An interesting article I found in an issue of The Economist was one on the current increase in Chinese military spending and a shift in it's military strategy. The United States' victories, using high-tech weapons, against the Iraqi army in the 1991 Gulf War and 2003 Invasion of Iraq showed the Chinese military strategists that a very large army was no longer enough to win. Chinese strategy has been shifted to an Anti-access/area denial focus, with scores of surface-to-air missiles, satellite killers, and anti-ship missiles. They are even believed to be in possession of a ballistic missile capable of landing a warhead on the deck of an aircraft carrier from thousands of miles away! This is designed to prevent United States intervention if Taiwan were to ever secede.
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