Leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Xi Jinping has ordered China's military to bolster its war preparations comprehensively, even as the regime unveils its latest hypersonic weapon.

Xi stated that the military branch of the Party must train for any war and be ready for unanticipated conflicts.

According to Xinhua, he stated that the military must devote all of its resources to combat readiness and work to "increase its ability to fight and win."

The military "must implement the Party's idea of strengthening the army in the new era," Xi said, referring to the CCP's vision of a new historical era in which China is the world's dominant power.

Xi made the remarks on November 8 during an inspection of the joint operations command center of China's highest defense body, the Central Military Commission, of which he is chairman.

The inspection coincided with a bellicose display at the regime's fourth annual air show, during which it displayed for the first time in public its most advanced fighter jet and unveiled a new hypersonic missile designed to target U.S. forces.

The regime also displayed its most advanced aircraft, the J-20 stealth fighter. Little is known about the J-20, except that it appears to be a clone of the U.S. F-35 and was likely manufactured using stolen design technologies. It is unknown whether the Chinese military will use the aircraft in a multi-role capacity, as the United States does with the F-35, or whether it will specialize in a specific domain, such as air superiority.

The aircraft entered service in 2017, and while there are still many unknowns about its capabilities and applications, U.S. forces have encountered it up close.

"We recently had, I wouldn't call it an engagement, but we got relatively close to the J-20s with our F-35s in the East China Sea," said Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, the commander of the Pacific Air Forces, in an interview with the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies on March 14.

The regime also used the air show to unveil its most recent weapon, an export variant of the hypersonic YJ-21 missile.

The YJ-21, also known as the Eagle Strike 21, can fly faster than Mach 12 and has a combat range of more than 1,200 miles. The so-called "carrier killer" system appears to be designed to target U.S. aircraft carriers operating in the Indo-Pacific.

While the two missiles on display were air-launch systems, designed for use by aircraft, the missile tested in April was launched from the ocean. A variant of the missile was launched from a vertical launch system on a Type 055 destroyer, one of China's most advanced warships, at the time. Naval News stated at the time that the deployment of the missile would make the Type 055 "the world's most heavily armed warships."