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I'm more of a student of the Cold War than the rest of you, I guess. What have the Chinese done here that doesn't have a direct analogy with what the USSR did during the Cold War? I mean the Soviets had the following technologies before us or close enough that it didn't matter: satellites, manned space flight, hydrogen bomb, nuclear-tipped missles, sea launched nuclear weapons, mobile ICBM launchers, etc. etc.
I don't really want to see it happen, but wouldn't an arms race be beneficial in some regards, especially when it comes to Japanese economic assistance?
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