China flexes military might with new weapons of war rolling down Beijing streets

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They're catching up to the Americans, I saw a full length documentary on this display and it is the most disciplined and wide ranging military exercise I've seen ever.  Makes Trump"s silly display that he insisted on a while back seem absolutely puny and disorganised.

Having spent a few days in China with a (US born) interpreter that understood local issues intimately and as a result it was made apparent to us that the CCP maintains its control over the near 1.5 billion Chinese population to a large degree by way of convincing them that China has the largest, strongest, fastest, most tech advanced of whatever thing that information spouted to them relates to. Any conflicting information is well censored, or banned, in order to maintain the facade. That is how you keep a 1.5B population consisting of numerous ethnic backgrounds under cohesive government.

That said the Chinese governmental strategy also works on a centuries scaled timescale rather than the parlimentary or presidential patchwork of other countries. From their perspective the last couple of centuries of Anglo American dominance is little more than a temporary blip in their progress towards dominance of world affairs.

And yes Trump is puny and disorganised on multiple levels.