Militarily, China at present is a power to be reckoned with. In recent times its Folks’s Liberation Military has made monumental strides in expertise and innovation in addition to numbers. China’s Dong Feng hypersonic missiles, for instance, can journey at speeds in extra of Mach 5 (5 occasions the velocity of sound), armed with both a excessive explosive or nuclear warhead. That is giving the US Navy’s seventh Fleet, primarily based at Yokosuka, Japan, pause for thought as to only how shut it’s ready to danger crusing to China’s massed missile batteries onshore.
