China's been showing off a lot of new powerful weapons, and experts think they're sending a message

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Chinese commandos pass quickly through poisonous area during a seven-day extreme military exercises at Xiuwen County on March 22, 2018 in Guiyang, Guizhou Province of China.

• Chinese media has been showing off a lot of Chinese weapons systems, running out report after report over the past month.
• Some analysts speculated that China was trying to send a warning about its growing power.

China ran report after report on Chinese military developments this past month, leading some observers to suspect that China is trying to send a message to its rivals and citizens at a time of heightened tensions with the US.

China is currently "on the verge of fielding some of the most modern weapon systems in the world," a new US defense intelligence assessment warned in mid-January. Chinese media seems determined to let the world, especially the US, know it developing powerful new weapons.

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The Chinese military is reportedly working on everything from railguns to knife guns to "carrier killer" anti-ship missiles. Here are seven of the weapons China's been showing off.