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Originally Posted by lurker
In a case you haven't noticed - China have satellites, and China is one of only 3 countries that had put a man in space.
For now they are only "the biggest world's sweatshop", but looking how busily all the world supplies them with technology, I would say in 15-20 years they will try to claim their place as a superpower.
And Taiwan would be the 1st step to that claim. The one cannot be a superpower and have such a thing so close.
p.s. let see how their project 9935 will wok out.
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From a long time PLA watcher, the PLA ain't aiming to be a super power. It cannot afford to do so. The PRC ain't the USSR. She has way too many theatres to handle (Russia, India, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, Japan, and the US) and I'm not even including the potential challenages from Indonesaia and Australia and Australia would automatically bring in the Brits and the Canadians.
Tracking a CVBG is a hell of alot of work, the former USSR spent over 2 decades doing it and it wasn't easy. One thing that we did know. REFORGER was going to work though quite a few of us would have been kissing a fish.