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A hypothetical military alliance between China and Russia. The two countries share a land border and they signed the Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation in 2001. A twenty-year strategic treaty extended or another 5 years after its expiration in February 2022. China is the world's most populous country, with a population of more than 1.4 billion people, on the other hand Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering over 17,098,246 square kilometres.

Currently, China focuses on domestic weapon designs and manufacturing, while still importing certain military products from Russia, such as jet engines. In September 2018, Russia hosted the militaries of China and Mongolia as a part of the Vostok 2018 military exercise. Russia and China flew joint bomber patrols over the Pacific. China refused to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Following the implementation of international sanctions during the war, China provided economic relief to Russia.

Taiwan is a country located in Eastern Asia with an area of 36,193 km2 (land boundries: 0 km and costline 1,566.3 km). The capital of Taiwan is Taipei. The number of inhabitants is 23,568,378.

The Taiwan military is armed mostly with second-hand weapons and equipment provided by the USA. Taiwan also has a domestic defense industry capable of building a range of military equipment.

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Military expenditures

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Military budget: 358.9 billion $ 19.3 billion $
Percent of GDP: 0% 2.3%

Military budget

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Highest value in the world: 816 billion $ (USA)
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Manpower

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Active personnel: 3,035,000 290,000
Reserve personnel: 4,000,000 2,310,000
Available for military: 420,586,837 5,883,828

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Highest value in the world: 2,035,000 (China)
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Land Forces

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Tanks: 18,017 1,160
Armoured fighting vehicles: 38,302 1,714
Total artillery: 25,360 1,944
Self-propelled artillery: 9,163 440
Rocket artillery: 7,471 126

Tanks

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Highest value in the world: 12,267 (Russia)
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Air Forces

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Total aircraft: 9,048 814
Fighter aircraft: 1,389 129
Multirole aircraft: 1,512 189
Attack aircraft: 809 0
Helicopters: 3,020 237
UCAV (combat drone): 251 0

Total aircraft

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Highest value in the world: 12,930 (USA)
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Navy

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Total naval: 1,395 96
Aircraftcarriers: 5 0
Destroyers: 52 4
Frigates: 65 22
Corvettes: 153 1
Submarines: 140 4

Total naval

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Highest value in the world: 967 (North Korea)
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Nuclear weapons

China and Russia

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Taiwan

Does not have nuclear weapons.

Military service

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Taiwan

Males 18-36 years of age may volunteer for military service or must complete 4 months of compulsory military training (or substitute civil service in some cases); women may enlist; women in Air Force service are restricted to noncombat roles; for men born before December 1993, compulsory service (military or civil) is 1 year; for 8 years after discharge, men are subject to training recall four times for periods not to exceed 20 days.