SYDNEY: During Xi Jinping's decade-long rule, China has built the world's largest navy, revamped the globe's biggest standing army, and amassed a nuclear and ballistic arsenal to trouble any foe.

With China's neighbors now rushing to keep pace, Xi's next five-year term is likely to see an Asia-Pacific arms race quickening.

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