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China's manufacturing capacity and infrastructure, their technology capability, their economic strength as measured in GDP and cash reserves, and their military weapons procurement and deployment are obviously all integrally related...and related in a synergistic sense. Growth in one will fuel growth in the others.

Think for example of the fact that China has maintained a nearly ten percent rate of growth in GDP for some time. Now think of the simple concept of compound interest..applied at a constant rate of ten percent.

Their growth is a nonlinear function...and China is IMHO presently at what engineers call the 'knee of the curve'.

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Do you think they could "out cold war" the US, the same way we finally outlasted the Soviets in the 80s?