China's 70-year parade shows global ambition as HK protests
The AP reports: "Trucks carrying nuclear missiles designed to evade U.S. defenses, a
supersonic attack drone and other products of a two-decade-old weapons
development effort rolled through Beijing as soldiers marched past
President Xi Jinping and other leaders on Tiananmen Square. [...] The
display highlighted Beijing’s ambition for strategic influence to match
its status as the second-largest global economy [...] Those strategic
goals include displacing the United States as the Pacific region’s
dominant power and enforcing potentially volatile claims to Taiwan, the
South China Sea and other disputed territories."
Comment: I believe that it is China's aim to force the United States and Western powers to confront a terrible choice: defend Taiwan and Hong Kong and risk nuclear war or capitulate to Chinese hegemony over Asia.
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