What China's Military Parade and Newest Jets Tell Us About the Battle For Air Supremacy

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🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The recent parade in Beijing once again raised questions about the relative strengths of the US and Chinese militaries. Meanwhile, because of recent global conflicts (including the clash between Indian and Pakistan earlier this year), we've gotten fresh data on how certain hardware actually holds up on the battlefield or in the skies. Separately, China is known to be working on a new 6th generation fighter for which some video has been shown. So who is ahead in terms of both cutting edge technology and also defense production at scale? And what does it even mean to have air superiority -- or even air "supremacy" when we're talking about modern warfare? On this episode, we speak with Kelly Grieco, senior fellow at the Stimson Center about the state of the two air forces.

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1:39.5	Tracy, did you catch any of the clips from the big Chinese military prey?
1:43.8	I did. I did. So this was the, this is actually really good timing. So we're recording this. They really know how to put on a parade. They really know how to put on a military parade. We're recording this on September 4th. We just had a massive military parade in Beijing that Xi Jinping put on. This was while Putin was there and also Kim Jong-un.
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