【明報專訊】THE PUBLIC EXHIBITION of Liaoning (China's first aircraft carrier) in Hong Kong on two consecutive days raised in town great fervour. China has indeed made in recent years rapid progress in armament technology. After Liaoning, 001A (the first wholly China-built aircraft carrier) and a 10,000-ton guided missile destroyer have been launched one after the other, 4th-generation Jian-20 stealth jet fighters have been put into service, and breakthroughs have been made in developing anti-missile and anti-satellite technologies and manufacturing hypersonic glide vehicles. Therefore, it has been clamorously asserted that China has surpassed Russia and is hot after the US in military power.