Key Highlights
- officials say it now threatens every major airfield, port and military installation across the Western Pacific.
- As Washington races to build its own long-range fires, analysts warn that the land domain has become the most overlooked — and potentially decisive — part of the U. S.–China matchup.
- Interviews with military experts show a contest defined not by tanks or troop movements, but by missile ranges, base access and whether U. S.
- forces can survive the opening salvos of a war that may begin long before any aircraft take off."The People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force … has built an increasing number of short-, medium-, and long-range missiles," Seth Jones of the Center for Strategic and International Studies told Fox News Digital.
- "They have the capability to shoot those across the first and increasingly the second island chains." For years, Chinese officials assumed they could not match the United States in air superiority.
