Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts Let’s not panic over China’s military might…just yet

Let’s not panic over China’s military might…just yet

The Hill

The latest Pentagon report to the Congress is a sobering, yet balanced, document. It outlines in great detail, and in some 130 pages, just how far China has come in the past decade and how it continues to develop an increasingly modern — indeed, high-tech — and capable military.

But China is not yet a global peer competitor of the United States, nor even a near-peer competitor. Its strength is as a regional power, with an increasing capability that is directed toward three interlocking objectives.

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