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Judging by the satellite imagery, provided by the San Francisco-based technology firm Planet Labs, some of the targets have already been hit. They sit on a mock-up runway showing clear black marks as if struck by missiles. More jets are lined up nearby.

It is not clear what type of weapon caused the damage, but the scale would suggest precision missiles fired from aircraft.

China’s ambitions beyond the western Pacific are less clear. Its party leadership has always denied it wants to become a world superpower of the sort that the US already is – but it is clear that its preferred “multipolar world” requires America to be constrained more broadly.


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