Can China Become A Military Superpower?

Al Jazeera: Can China become a military superpower?

Beijing has outlined its defence plans that include a modern and advanced army.

Global military competition is on the rise and China believes it's lagging behind.

Beijing says the United States has increased its defence budgets, modernised its weapons, and developed its capacity in cyberspace, as well as outer space.

And the Chinese government wants to catch up and has detailed how it intends to do that.

In a national defence paper released on Wednesday, Beijing declared it wants greater modernisation of its armed forces and weapons.

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WNU Editor: The current sentiment in China is that they want to be a global superpower. But it is going to take 2 or 3 decades before China becomes just that, and who knows what may happen between now and then.

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