# How powerful is the Chinese Military?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 19, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-powerful-is-the-chinese-military/848203 "2020-02-19T23:52:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-powerful-is-the-chinese-military/848203/23 "2021-03-06T22:45:31Z")

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Bumped.

An earlier thread on the growing Chinese navy: [China Wants Aircraft Carriers-How Long To Develop Naval Air Arm?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-wants-aircraft-carriers-how-long-to-develop-naval-air-arm/565220)

And see:

> **[China has built the world's largest navy. Now what's Beijing going to do with...](https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/05/china/china-world-biggest-navy-intl-hnk-ml-dst/index.html)**
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> At some point between 2015 and today, China has assembled the world's largest naval force. And now it's working to make it formidable far from its shores.

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