The Pentagon disclosed last week that China is incrementally moving toward becoming an expansionist military power, seeking bases overseas along with a new doctrine to support power projection around the world.
Chinese global military aspirations were revealed in the latest annual report on the Chinese arms forces and follows decades of earlier reports that insisted China’s main military focus is limited to preparing to fight a regional war with the United States over Taiwan.
The theme behind the Taiwan focus of the past was that China’s large-scale military buildup is not global in scope because Beijing was only seeking modernized forces designed for conflict across the 100 mile-wide Taiwan Strait.
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