Even so, Xi has built up China’s military to the point where its dominance of the country’s near periphery should now be safely beyond question, said Lyle Goldstein, director of the China Initiative at Brown University.
Already capable of hitting the U.S. homeland with a nuclear projectile, China has strengthened its so-called nuclear triad, meaning it can now launch a nuclear device from land, sea or air, he added.
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