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The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force video opens with a time-lapse clip showing H-6 strategic bombers being prepared for takeoff by their ground crews. Emotional piano music swells in the background. Soon the planes are flying over parts of the Chinese countryside, their shadows racing over people going about their day. The music gets faster and louder as a hand presses a button on a control panel, launching a missile that spirals toward its target, which is…Alcatraz?Needless to say, China did not launch an airstrike against the infamous former prison in San Francisco Bay that once housed criminal legends like Al Capone. The explosion scene in the PLAAF propaganda video posted Sept. 19 on YouTube comes from the 1996 blockbuster The Rock
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