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War Is Boring
April 20, 2018
We'll see. Exoskeletons are extremely difficult engineering challenges that try to augment something humans are already evolved to do — resulting in tiring out the human operator instead of strengthening them. Still, perhaps the Chinese military will develop a machine or weapon that has more success.
VnExpress International
April 20, 2018
Vietnam's foreign ministry on Thursday dismissed any activities in the East Sea without Hanoi's consent as illegal, regarding recent reports of new Chinese military aircraft in the region. Activities conducted in the Spratly and Paracel Islands without Vietnam's authorization are "completely invalid and illegal,"Ãâà...
NEWS.com.au
April 20, 2018
The Defence Department issued a statement confirming the three vessels recently travelled through the region but refused to provide details of the interactions between Australia's warships and the Chinese military, the ABC reported on Friday. “As they have done for many decades, Australian vessels andÃâà...
ABC Online
April 20, 2018
Three Australian warships were challenged by the Chinese military as they travelled through the disputed South China Sea earlier this month, the ABC can reveal. The confrontations with the People's Liberation Army are believed to have occurred as China was conducting its largest ever naval exercises inÃâà...
Observer Research Foundation
April 19, 2018
Xi's emphasis on Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the military might, in his entire speech, unambiguously conveyed the significant role he attributed to the Chinese military. He announced that the PLA's focus will be on realisation of the 'Chinese Dream' for which it must develop “a new militaryÃâà...
The Straits Times
April 18, 2018
MANILA (REUTERS) - The Philippines may lodge a protest with China against the reported presence of two military aircraft on a Chinese-built island in the South China Sea, the Philippines' top diplomat has said, amid concern that China is militarising the waterway. The Philippine Daily Inquirer publishedÃâà...
The Conversation AU
April 11, 2018
Rumour has it that Vanuatu has agreed to a Chinese request to establish a military base. The substance of this rumour is highly speculative at the least and disingenuous at most. Regardless of the truth, the fact that it raises alarm about the threat of Chinese military expansionism speaks volumes aboutÃâà...
CNN
April 10, 2018
Any Chinese military presence could see warships based less than 2,500 kilometers (1,553 miles) from Australia's coast. ... Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop also tried to quell fears of an increased Chinese military presence in a region which has traditionally been under Canberra's sphere ofÃâà...
New York Times
April 10, 2018
The report on Monday that the Chinese and Vanuatu governments had held preliminary discussions about a permanent Chinese military presence in the former French colony, which is 1,500 miles off the coast of Australia, has raised alarm bells in the region. But China hit back quickly on Tuesday, with aÃâà...
EurAsian Times
March 30, 2018
The Chinese Military is building a radar with their missile defence system technology to fight its current biggest enemy. Chinese Military scientists are developing a radar that has the same technology as their missile defence system that will enable them to detect enemies up to two kilometres away. ChineseÃâà...
South China Morning Post
March 30, 2018
The Chinese military aimed to enhance its “war-fighting capabilities” without departing from a policy of peaceful development with its recent large-scale naval drills in the contested South China Sea, a spokesman for China's defence ministry said. Ministry spokesman Ren Guoqiang, asked to commentÃâà...
Economic Times
March 30, 2018
3 lakh troops cut completed, more reforms to follow: Chinese military. PTI| ... The PLA also announced last year that it would reduce its ground troops to less than a million as part of Chinese military modernisation plan under which the navy has been given greater role to expand China's global influence.
Newsweek
March 29, 2018
Updated | China's first domestically-built aircraft carrier is now preparing for sea trials. The carrier is a potent symbol of the modernized Chinese military and of Beijing's ambition to be a self-reliant top-tier global power. The carrier, launched in the northern Chinese port of Dalian on April 26, 2017, is knownÃâà...
CNN
March 29, 2018
(CNN) In a move surely intended to put Washington on notice China's military has put on a show of force in the South China Sea, new satellite images show, with drills at sea and in the air to reinforce its claims in the contested region. Analysts said the images, provided by Planet Labs Inc and date-stampedÃâà...
Focus Taiwan News Channel
March 28, 2018
Taipei, March 26 (CNA) Several Chinese military aircraft were seen flying Monday over the Bashi Channel, which lies between Taiwan and the ... Taiwan's military keeps a close watch on Chinese military movements and maintains the necessary measures to ensure national security, the ministry added.
The Epoch Times
March 27, 2018
The U.S.-based research nonprofit, the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), published an investigative report showing how the Chinese military, under the control of, first, former Party leader Jiang Zemin, and later, Xu and Guo, played a major role in the setting upÃâà...
Nikkei Asian Review
March 21, 2018
The move will allow the coast guard to closely collaborate with the Chinese military as it steps up activities in the East China Sea, raising alarm in the Japanese government. The maritime body has effectively been under the command of the Ministry of Public Security. It was formed in 2013 by combiningÃâà...
The Diplomat
March 20, 2018
First, are international and Chinese PSCs a plausible alternative to the Chinese military to provide security to Chinese nationals along the BRI? Second, are Chinese PSCs loyal to Beijing or could they actually work in opposition to China's state interests in protecting assets along the BRI footprint?
The National Interest Online (blog)
March 14, 2018
Sea tests of China's indigenous electromagnetic railguns are underway, Chinese papers have revealed, quoting delegates of the People's Liberation Army who are attending the annual parliamentary session in Beijing. This has been further confirmed by a feature on the PLA-run news portal 81.cn about aÃâà...
South China Morning Post
March 13, 2018
The servicemen and women of the world's biggest military will be in for a bonus when they open their pay packets this month – all personnel have been given a pay rise backdated to August. The move comes amid a major reform of China's military designed to boost its combat strength, during which BeijingÃâà...
The Sydney Morning Herald
March 12, 2018
... research facility at a cost of ÃâÃÂ¥76 billion. Quantum technology would enable the Chinese military to set up virtually unbreakable communication networks. It would also provide it with overwhelming computing power for information operations, such as the decryption of secret communications by adversaries.
Washington Examiner
March 6, 2018
The new Chinese military base in Djibouti is located “just outside our gate,” Waldhauser said, and it also deployed a hospital ship to the port to treat locals, a common practice by the U.S. when it works to build stronger ties with allies. “The Chinese aren't there for purely charitable reasons, we all wouldÃâà...
Times of India
March 5, 2018
PLA also announced last year that it would reduce its grounds troops to less than a million as part of Chinese military modernisation under which the navy ... Commenting on the troops cut, Song Zhongping, a Chinese military expert and TV commentator, told the Global Times that "the military can allocateÃâà...
CNN
March 5, 2018
"This is the first time since the founding of the country that instructions on military training have been directly issued by the chairman of the CMC (Central military Commission), and it shows that improving combat readiness is now a strategic mission for the Chinese military," the Global Times quoted XuÃâà...
The Times
February 27, 2018
China's vast military has become the first state institution to throw its support behind a constitutional amendment demanded by President Xi that would put an end to term limits on his job, which could allow him to rule for many years to come. The Communist Party's rubber stamp legislature is yet to vote onÃâà...
South China Morning Post
February 26, 2018
The circumstances of a human rights lawyer's death at a Chinese military hospital have raised questions about the welfare of those who have defied the country's authorities. Li Baiguang was a well-known lawyer who defended farmers and Christian pastors, work that garnered him an award from theÃâà...
South China Morning Post
February 25, 2018
Walking through a trade show in Abu Dhabi all about military drones, Emirati officials made a point on Sunday to stop first at a stand run by Chinese officials with a mock armed drone hanging above them. Defence analysts believe that the drone, the Wing Loong II, is now being used by the United ArabÃâà...
Newsweek
February 21, 2018
The Chinese military has published photos of recent air force drills that at least one expert quoted in ruling party media identified Tuesday as a direct message to neighboring India. Tensions between the two Asian powers have once again risen after they threatened to come to blows over a border disputeÃâà...
NBCNews.com
February 17, 2018
Earlier this month, pictures emerged showing what some experts believed was an electromagnetic railgun mounted on a ship. A Chinese military analyst, Cheng Shuoren, was quoted by the state media as saying it was an engineering feat of "epoch-making significance." Instead of explosives, railguns useÃâà...
BBC News
February 12, 2018
China's modernisation of its armed forces is proceeding faster than many analysts expected. Now, according to experts at the International Institute for Strategic Studies - the IISS - in London, it is China and no longer Russia, that increasingly provides the benchmark against which Washington judges theÃâà...
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
“Performing tasks outside the country can greatly enhance the marines' combat capability such as emergency and rapid response skills,” an unnamed military expert told ruling Chinese Communist Party outlet The Global Times in an article also posted Thursday by the Chinese military's official website.
The Diplomat
December 31, 1999
He added that in addition to the quantum of funding, it is the increasing sophistication of the Chinese military that is alarming. The United States has also raised similar concerns about the non-transparent nature of China's military spending. Vice Adm. Phillip Sawyer, commander of the Asia-based U.S.Ãâà...
IHS Jane's 360
December 31, 1999
“Chinese military forces continue to develop capabilities to dissuade, deter, or defeat potential third-party intervention during a large-scale theatre campaign, such as a Taiwan contingency. China's military modernisation plan includes the development of capabilities to conduct long-range attacks againstÃâà...
South China Morning Post
December 31, 1999
South Korea accused China of flying a military aircraft into its air defence identification zone on Tuesday without giving prior notification, a move that one analyst said could hamper the two sides' efforts to normalise relations. A Chinese aircraft entered South Korea's Air Defence Identification Zone (KADIZ)Ãâà...
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
The Chinese military has released an analysis of a new, deadly stage in the ongoing war in Syria, where it has chosen to side with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, while Beijing developed powerful weapons and held exercises meant to show off the country's growing might. China Military Online, theÃâà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
December 31, 1999
After conquering Manchuria in 1945, the Soviets looted Japanese industry and left. A similar scenario might have ensued in 1969, but only if the Chinese leadership could bring itself to face reality. With the worst excesses of the Cultural Revolution in the very recent rear-view mirror, and competing factionsÃâà...
CNBC
December 31, 1999
Indian and Western diplomats "are convinced that Hambantota will end up becoming a Chinese military and naval base, or another Djibouti," the Observer Research Foundation, an Indian think tank, said in an October report. The Maldives and Myanmar, both recipients of Chinese investment, also seen asÃâà...
