The Chinese Communist Party’s aims are evident not just in Xi’s rhetoric and its legal doctrines governing the private sector but most alarmingly in its breathtaking military expansion. China’s military budget has increased by 400 percent since 2006,14 and though Beijing does not reveal the exact amount of its annual military spending, that number will surely continue to grow along with China’s GDP. This money is buying far more than what Chinese planners call “counter-intervention forces,” such as dense layers of air defenses and advanced missiles of all ranges to deny US forces the ability
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