Article: China's military might on display; Marks 60th birthday with missile show.(WORLD)

Byline: Michael Standaert, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

BEIJING -- China's first large-scale military parade on Thursday delivered a message to potential regional adversaries that it is not to be messed with and that China is moving toward global power projection 60 years after the founding of the communist government, analysts say.

Along with its latest tanks, amphibious assault vehicles, anti-aircraft systems, fighters jets and bombers, China's most impressive - and biggest - weapons seemed to have been new variants of ballistic missiles. These included the DF-15B and DF-11A short-range ballistic missiles, the DF-21C medium-range ballistic missile - which ...

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