China Flexes Military Muscle Before Donald Trump Takes Office

Shenyang FC-31 Gyrfalcon at the 2014 Zhuhai Air Show

BEIJING: An aircraft carrier in the Pacific and a newly upgraded combat aircraft: China's military is showing off its newest equipment less than a month before the swearing-in of US President-elect Donald Trump, who has raised tensions between Beijing and Taipei.



In recent days state media announced that the country's only aircraft