Shades of the early 1930s?-----China Has Built the Strongest Military in the Indo-Pacific | RealClearDefense

Too often, Chinese and U.S. military power is compared on a global scale, where the U.S. military, equipped and trained to project power across the planet, has the clear advantage. -  Mackenzie Eaglen

• China has increasingly demonstrated its ability to build modern military capabilities at size and scale, and the ability to project that power regionally.
• China now fields the largest army, navy and ground-based rocket force in the world. 
• Beijing has also been hard at work to build a sophisticated hypersonic missile arsenal and to triple its nuclear arsenal by 2030.
• By comparison, while China rapidly builds military capacity, the U.S. military is rapidly shrinking across the services...