Quiz

1.
The United States is carefully keeping an eye on China. China has missiles (Dongfeng-31) that can fire all the way to the west side of the US. Not only that but, they can be launched from TRUCKS, making them fulkly mobile. The US predicts that China will launch this missile within the next few years.

These missiles are just one thing; China is also developing an in-flight refueling capacity, giving its air force a much longer a much longer range. Submarines and in-flight controls will allow them to compete in high technology battlefields. With all this technology, they might be able to take back Taiwan.

2.
After the Opium wars, China was devasted, depressed, and opened up. Before the wars, China was mostly isolated and known as a superior country. After, it was open and exposed. People knew about how insecure it was and how inadequete its social and political structures were. The Treaties signed after the war opened Chinese ports, and along with it, Chinese markets to Western capitalism. This almost entirely collapsed China's economy.

3.
Now, China seems to have reshaped and recovered. They have a powerful military, ready to send missiles to an enemy anytime. They're not as insecure and open as before. The opium war effects are fading.