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China's ambitions in military dominion have a tendency to manifest themselves through weapons. China, which is one of the world’s technology manufacturer can develop worrying and globally powerful capabilities that many countries all over the world would not necessarily want for themselves.
The giant country offered two blatant reminder of an unbalanced approach to its military development. In late July, the U.S. State Department determined that China had conducted a"non-destructive" test of an anti-satellite missile.
By even tracking anti-satellite capabilities China is suggesting that it might consider orbital assets to be in play in a future conflict.
Although such weaponry isn't exactly illegal under the current international legal regime, but in the future warfare, much of the world shakes to contemplate including the U.S.
A U.S. State Department spokesperson called on China "to abstain from undermining actions ... such as the continued development and testing of destructive anti-satellite systems."
Two weeks ago, China confirmed the existence of the long-rumored Dongfeng-41A next-generation global ballistic missile, which can apparently carry up to 10 nuclear warheads a distance of 12,000 kilometers. The world is convincing to stop the powerful countries to stop developing such type of missiles yet China is still emerging such high tech weapon system.
In a nuclear exchange, a country with multi-warhead missiles could cause a potential death blow to its enemy on a single volley. What China is doing right now is an unequal capability. China is developing weaponry that the rest of the world has mostly avoided, in the hope of coming an advantage from its rivals' complacency.
China's growing power and influence don't just originate from its population, economic blow, or substantial army. It also comes from its inclination to plan its own course, even against usual international standards.
