Category: Military
Key Sources of Contention Between China and India
By Mary Yang, with Bhuvan Bagga in New Delhi China and India are talking again after a years-long freeze, with leaders Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi meeting at a BRICS summit this week and the two sides striking a deal on ...
Taipei Says Chinese Aircraft Carrier Group Sailed Through Taiwan Strait
By Joy Chiang and Amber Wang A Chinese aircraft carrier group sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, Taiwan's defense minister said, a day after Beijing held a live-fire exercise near the self-ruled island. China ...
India Says Agreement With China on Contested Border Patrols: Foreign Ministry
India said that on Monday, it struck an agreement with neighbor China for military patrols in highly contested border zones, aiming to resolve issues that flared when their rival armies clashed in 2020. The announcement comes a day before Indian Prime ...
Letter From Taipei: Why Taiwan Remains Such a Surreal Place
I’ve been in Taipei for the past week, reacquainting myself with a city that I first fell in love with back in 1989 when I came here right out of high school to study Mandarin. Living in Taipei back then was a somewhat surreal experience. People were ...
China Insists Won’t Renounce ‘Use of Force’ to Take Taiwan as Drills End
By Amber Wang with Sam Davies in Pingtan China insisted on Monday it would never renounce the "use of force" to take control of Taiwan after ending a day of military drills around the self-ruled island that Beijing said was a ...
China Ally Kiribati Criticizes Beijing Missile Launch
Kiribati's pro-China president has said his nation "does not welcome" Beijing's recent test firing of a ballistic missile in the Pacific, rare criticism from a staunch regional ally. In a social media post, Taneti Maamau's office stated that the South Pacific ...
U.S., UK Conservatives Fear Chagos Island Handover is an Intelligence Gift to China
Current and former conservative lawmakers in the U.S. and UK are condemning a British government deal to handover the Chagos Islands to Mauritius over concerns that it could pave the way for a Chinese military base on the Indian Ocean archipelago. ...
Competing Naval Drills in South China Sea Raise Tensions
Competing naval exercises got underway in the South China Sea this week, further raising tensions in a region marked by overlapping territorial claims. The Philippine Navy cooperated with allies in carrying out a maritime cooperative activity (MCA) exercise, which focused on ...
China Conducts Air, Sea Patrols Near Flashpoint Reef
Chinese naval and air forces conducted patrols around a flashpoint reef in the South China Sea on Saturday after a slew of tense encounters with the Philippines in the disputed waterway in recent months. The patrols coincided with joint exercises carried ...
French Polynesia Says Chinese Missile Landed ‘Not Far’ From Its EEZ in Pacific
French Polynesia said a Chinese intercontinental ballistic missile launched into the Pacific landed near its exclusive economic zone, as Beijing's first such tests in four decades drew a chorus of protests. China announced the rare trial on Wednesday, saying the missile ...
Japan Warship Asserts Right to Sail Through Taiwan Strait: Media
By Kyoko Hasegawa A Japanese warship cruised through the Taiwan Strait for the first time to assert its freedom of navigation, local media said Thursday, just a week after a Chinese aircraft carrier sailed between two Japanese islands near Taiwan.
Philippines Military Backs Permanent Stay of U.S. Missile System
Philippine military chief General Romeo Brawner on Wednesday backed the permanent stationing of a U.S. missile system in his country after China had warned deployment of the weapon was destabilizing the region. The U.S. Army said in April it had deployed ...