Whereas during the Cold War the Soviet Union represented a credible adversary in niche capacities only—nuclear weapons, conventional land warfare, manned space exploration—China competes credibly with America across the board. China is a full-spectrum economic and military power with a vast first-world navy, nuclear weapons, a strengthening NCO corps, and cyber and digital capacities that carry over from the military to the consumer sphere. China is preparing to send a man to the moon.
