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Is China’s Military Weaker Than We Thought?

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Is China’s Military Weaker Than We Thought?
Military delegates arrive for the third plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Beijing on March 10, 2018. Fred Dufour/AFP via Getty Images
Anders Corr
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Some Chinese missiles are filled with water rather than rocket fuel, and the doors to large numbers of Chinese nuclear-capable silos don’t function, according to U.S. intelligence cited in a Jan. 7 Bloomberg report.
Anders Corr
Anders Corr
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Anders Corr has a bachelor's/master's in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea" (2018).
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