The world just witnessed a reversal of power that nobody saw coming. For decades, the United States imagined it would lead the planet into a new age of missile defence, a space shield to guard humanity from annihilation. But whilst Washington was still drawing blueprints, Beijing built the dome.
China has fielded a working prototype of what it calls a "distributed early warning detection big data platform", a real, functioning global missile defence network, before the US could even agree on a design.
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