Iron Trio: China’s Parade of Power
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Recently Kevin Price, Host of the nationally syndicated Price of Business Show, interviewed J.L. “Jim” Hancock.
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On a recent Price of Business show, host Kevin Price interviewed J.L. Hancock.
In Beijing, China staged its largest-ever military parade, drawing global attention not only for its cutting-edge arsenal but for the presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, who stood beside President Xi Jinping in a rare show of authoritarian unity.
The display featured China’s fully operational nuclear triad—land-, sea-, and air-launched missiles—including the DF-61 ICBM, JL-3 SLBM, and JL-1 air-launched system. Also on view were hypersonic missiles, underwater drones, laser and microwave anti-drone weapons, and eerie autonomous “robot wolves” designed for surveillance and combat. These advancements highlight China’s push into “intelligentised warfare,” blending AI and automation with traditional military power.
Yet such progress often owes as much to espionage as to innovation. China has long relied on cyber theft, covert acquisitions, and aggressive reverse-engineering of foreign designs to accelerate its capabilities. This shadowy path allows Beijing to showcase weapons that rival or surpass those of established powers.
For regimes like China, Russia, and North Korea, military parades are more than pageantry. They are theaters of intimidation for rivals, rallies of national pride for domestic audiences, and affirmations of solidarity among states bound by shared hostility to the democratic order.
J.L. “Jim” Hancock was born in Albuquerque, NM. He has worked as a martial arts instructor, lifeguard, foreign missionary, and river guide. In 2002, he enlisted in the Navy and spent twenty years as a cryptologist.
During his time in the military, Jim toiled away in the dark corners of the government intelligence communities, learned two Asian languages, and eventually conducted over one hundred combat operations with special operations forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Philippines. During the last six years of his career, he worked as the senior enlisted advisor over future concepts and innovation for the Navy special operations community where he became a well-known subject matter expert in unmanned systems, 5G, and artificial intelligence.
He is presently writing a series and a standalone novel.
The Voodoo series involves a skilled military technician facing the evolving global threat of an international arms race for artificial intelligence.
His upcoming standalone novel, The Devil and the Pendulum, is a modern riff on The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. But instead of demons learning to tempt man, The Devil and the Pendulum consists of Russian agents learning to manipulate modern America.
J.L. Hancock lives in San Diego, CA, with his wife and two children.
You can find out more about emerging tech trends at his website https://jlhancock.com. You can also purchase his recent technothriller, The Hawk Enigma, on Amazon.
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