China's new military hardware

When the Chinese political party celebrated its seventieth-anniversary last month, it did this with a jaw-dropping show of armaments, scale of that has never been seen before. The huge parade in Tiananmen sq. enclosed 15,000 troops, 580 items of half-tracked, wheeled and towed instrumentation, together with dozens of DF-41s, the world's quickest and most powerful inter-continental missiles.

China's leaders are progressively h....