The DF-26B allows China to target US Navy warships operating near regions China considers to be within its sphere of influence. This capability means that all those expensive US Navy warships—notably aircraft carriers—will be vulnerable to attack from the DF-26B. The DF-26B carries the nickname “car...
I harbor a secret, desperate hope that the USA's nuclear arsenal is becoming equally decrepit and outdated and that, on the day when the collapse of their empire finally becomes critical and the remaining members of the death cult who are unable to imagine the end of capitalism and who see the end of the world as the only option decide in a final act of greedy desperation to launch against China, it will turn out that China has been tirelessly advancing in that field too and is able to intercept and destroy enough of the warheads to spare the rest of the world from a nuclear apocalypse.
One possible way for this shit not to escalate to nuclear armageddon is if these death cultists are given an off-ramp where they stand to benefit from the new global paradigm. Hella unsatisfying.