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China has nuclear weapons and the third-largest military budget on the planet; mounts invasion exercises directed at Taiwan.(The Week ...)(Brief Article)

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China has nuclear weapons and the third-largest military budget on the planet; mounts invasion exercises directed at Taiwan, and fires the occasional missile as a warning shot at them; has bought into the European satellite guidance system known as Galileo, which has a military dimension; maintains a standing army of several million; and is currently deploying 4,000 troops in Sudan, the first Chinese imperial venture for several centuries. It doesn't take a Clausewitz to realize that something with most alarming implications for everyone is going on in that Communist state. At an Asian security conference in Singapore, defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld ...

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