{"id":81556,"date":"2015-06-28T12:23:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T04:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=81556"},"modified":"2015-06-28T12:23:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T04:23:30","slug":"understanding-chinas-aims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=81556","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Chinas aims"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOTH of these statements are true: China possesses a rapidly improving military that, in certain local or regional engagements, could match \u201d and even defeat \u201d United States forces in battle, and, in military terms, China is a paper dragon that, despite its apparent strength, is powerless to intervene in world events far from its shores.<\/p>\n

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