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Chinese military

  • Friday, 18 April, 2025
    Houthi movement
    US says Chinese company is helping Houthis target American warships

    Satellite group linked to People’s Liberation Army has supplied images to Iran-backed group in Yemen, say officials

    Yemen’s Houthi forces ride a vehicle next to a large screen broadcasting an attack of Yemen’s Houthis targeted a US battleship in the Red Sea
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    Top Chinese general removed in Xi’s latest purge

    He Weidong was number-two officer in People’s Liberation Army and member of Communist party politburo

    He Weidong in military uniform adorned with medals and insignia
  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    China launches large-scale military exercises around Taiwan

    Aircraft carrier Shandong makes closest pass as Taipei seeks to strengthen preparedness

    China’s aircraft carrier Shandong, seen in a screenshot taken from a video released by the Eastern Theatre Command of China’s People’s Liberation Army on Tuesday
  • Saturday, 1 March, 2025
    Chinese politics & policy
    Military delegates lose sway at China’s signature political gathering

    Xi Jinping’s purges have cast shadow over Beijing’s rubber stamp legislature

    A screen shows images of China’s President Xi Jinping as people visit the Museum of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai
  • Wednesday, 26 February, 2025
    Taiwan
    Taiwan condemns China over unannounced live-fire naval drills

    Exercises are latest sign of disruption as People’s Liberation Army expands operations

    A PLA Navy tugboat is sailing in the Taiwan Strait, with a group of tourists observing from Pingtan Island in Fujian province, China.
  • Friday, 21 February, 2025
    Australia
    Australia warns airlines over Chinese live-fire exercises

    Canberra calls for transparency over naval drills after commercial flights rerouted from Tasman Sea

    A frigate travels in turquoise waters against a backdrop of hilly terrain under a clear sky
  • Wednesday, 19 February, 2025
    Asia maritime tensions
    Philippines ‘deeply disturbed’ by incident over shoal disputed by China

    Manila’s foreign secretary says he is reassured by US commitment to alliance amid tensions with Beijing

    Enrique Manalo
  • Wednesday, 19 February, 2025
    Asia maritime tensions
    Chinese warships sail within 150 nautical miles of Sydney

    ‘Unprecedented’ manoeuvre comes as Beijing projects power further in Pacific

    The frigate Hengyang moves through calm waters
  • Thursday, 13 February, 2025
    Taiwan
    China military exercises near Taiwan could be used to conceal attack, US says

    Pentagon’s Indo-Pacific chief says American military must step up preparations for conflict in region

    US Navy Admiral Samuel Paparo
  • Thursday, 30 January, 2025
    China builds huge wartime military command centre in Beijing

    Complex will be bigger than Pentagon and include bombproof bunkers for leaders, say US officials

    A montage of Chinese army personnel with the stars of the Chinese flag in the background
  • Tuesday, 21 January, 2025
    Taiwan
    Taiwan lawmakers risk alienating Trump with defence funds freeze

    US president has claimed Washington is providing ‘insurance’ for Taipei

    Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te, right, visits a military base in Taitung, Taiwan on January 21 2025
  • Monday, 13 January, 2025
    China building new mobile piers that could help possible Taiwan invasion

    Satellite images reveal barge-like vessels that could help transport tanks and artillery over coastal mudflats

  • Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
    News in-depthPhilippines
    Philippines wrestles with how to face down China while policing 7,000 islands

    Manila does not have maritime resources to go toe to toe with Beijing, say government officials

    A Chinese coastguard vessel, labeled 5201, uses water cannons against a Philippine resupply vessel, Unaizah
  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    China launches biggest amphibious assault ship in projection of military power

    Vessel described as ‘light aircraft carrier’ unveiled a day after test flights of new fighter jet prototypes

    A colourful display of fireworks erupts into the sky during the launching ceremony for China's first Type 076 amphibious assault ship at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding in Shanghai.
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    China is rapidly expanding nuclear forces, says Pentagon

    US defence department reports that Beijing has increased operational nuclear warhead arsenal by 20% in a year

    A mobile intercontinental missile launcher drives past people with cameras at a Beijing military parade
  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    News in-depthDrones
    China’s ‘loyal wingman’ drones open new front in competition with US

    Aircraft designed to accompany crewed stealth jets could help Beijing challenge American air superiority

    China’s Feihong FH-97A, a ‘loyal wingman’ drone designed to accompany crewed aircraft, on display at Zhuhai air show in China
  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    News in-depth
    Big Chinese naval exercise leaves Taiwan and US struggling for response

    Taipei and Washington draw different conclusions over meaning of unannounced military deployment

  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    Nuclear proliferation
    US nuclear build-up would not help deter China from using atomic weapons in Taiwan, war game finds

    Unclassified exercise by CSIS and MIT suggests Washington should not go beyond current modernisation plans

  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Asia maritime tensions
    Philippines considers new UN case against Beijing over South China Sea activity

    Manila hopes to enlist other countries to add to pressure on China

    A China Coast Guard ship is seen from a Philippine Coast Guard vessel during a supply mission in disputed waters of the South China Sea in August
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Taiwan
    China starts military movements after Taiwan leader’s first foreign trip

    Beijing’s aviation authorities have partially restricted swaths of airspace, indicating imminent military activity

    Lai Ching-te waves upon arrival at Taoyuan International Airport in Taiwan on Friday
  • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
    China probes top officer discipline ‘violations’

    Investigation into Miao Hua takes Xi Jinping’s purge of military to its highest echelons

    Miao stepping out of an aircraft during a visit to North Korea in 2019
  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    China’s defence minister placed under investigation for corruption

    US officials say probe is part of wider operation to uncover graft in People’s Liberation Army

    Dong Jun listens during the Asean- China defence ministers’ meeting in Vientiane, Laos
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    News in-depthPakistan's politics
    Xi faces heat over failure to protect Chinese workers overseas

    Bomb attack by Pakistan separatists adds to pressure on Beijing to secure interests

    Chinese President Xi Jinping walks past uniformed military personnel holding rifles
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    China unveils J-35 stealth fighter jet to compete with US

    Beijing’s latest-generation aircraft revealed at Zhuhai air show as part of military modernisation

    A J-35A stealth fighter jet flies in the sky during the 15th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, or Airshow China 2024
  • Sunday, 10 November, 2024
    Asia maritime tensions
    Philippines aims to buy US missile launcher in move likely to anger China

    Typhon intermediate-range system first deployed in archipelago for bilateral exercises

    A mid-range capability launcher arrives in Northern Luzon, Philippines, on April 8 2024
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