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China is rapidly strengthening its ability to project military power far across the Pacific Ocean. In doing so, its military is gutting a long-held Pentagon belief that its threat was limited to the Second Island Chain linking Japan to Guam. The development reflects Chinese Communist Party Chairman Xi Jinping’s ambition for global hegemony.