Super Typhoon Bavi is headed for Japan, Taiwan and China (Image credit: SCMP)China, Taiwan and Japan braced for what may be the most destructive tropical storm in years as Super Typhoon Bavi, a storm roughly the width of France at about 1,000km, churned toward the region with winds near 200km/h.Satellite imagery shows Bavi covers nearly 940,000 sq km, an area about nine times the size of China's Zhejiang province or 850 times Hong Kong's land area. The storm is forecast to skirt northern Taiwan before making landfall in China's eastern Fujian province on July 11, according to China's National Meteorological Centre.Jason Chang, a forecaster at Taiwan's Central Weather Administration, said storms of this size have been "fairly rare in recent years" and that Bavi is set to be the largest stor