China’s military display shows it has the might to back up Xi’s vision of a new world order

The huge military parade through central Beijing on Wednesday was a deliberately fearsome display of weaponry designed to send a message that Xi Jinping’s vision of a new world order with China at the apex will be backed up with high-tech arms that would seem, in many cases, to be ahead of its rivals.While much post-parade attention will be focused on new long-range nuclear-armed weapons – like