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US: Cambodia 'opaque' over Chinese activity at navy base

Reuters
Posted at Oct 14 12:06 AM

Cambodia's ties with the United States have frayed in recent years over US allegations its ruling party is persecuting its opponents. Read more »

China enters Taiwan air defense zone a day after military budget boost

Reuters
Posted at Sep 18 03:35 AM

Taiwan sent combat aircraft to warn away the Chinese aircraft, while missile systems were deployed to monitor them, the ministry said. Read more »

Naval power in the Pacific in numbers

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 17 07:00 PM

Here's how the military balance of power in the region stands. Read more »

China, Russia agree to boost military cooperation

Kyodo News
Posted at Aug 13 11:53 PM

The two countries, however, have been deepening their ties of late as their relations with the United States have deteriorated. Read more »

Russia, China hold large-scale joint military drills

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 10 08:38 PM

"Our governments are too slow in responding," said Lidy Nacpil, coordinator of the Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development. Read more »

Chinese President Xi Jinping calls for greater focus on military development

Eduardo Baptista, South China Morning Post
Posted at Aug 01 07:49 AM

Xi tells a Politburo study session that the country needs to ‘make preparations for military struggle’. His comments come ahead of an important PLA anniversary and at a time when China is facing a growing security threat on its border with Afghanistan. Read more »

Is China building a vast network of nuclear missile silos?

Liu Zhen and Kristin Huang, South China Morning Post
Posted at Jul 03 02:25 AM

Chinese military observers have dismissed US media reports that China is building a network of nuclear missile silos in its northwestern desert, saying that they would be too vulnerable to attack and the technology involved is obsolete. Read more »

US Navy says carrier group operating in South China Sea

Reuters
Posted at Jun 15 04:48 PM

TAIPEI - A US aircraft carrier group led by the USS Ronald Reagan has entered the South China Sea as part of a routine mission, the US Navy said on Tuesday, at a time of rising tensions between Washington and Beijing, which claims most the disputed waterway. Read more »

G7 seeks common front on China in first talks since pandemic

Shaun Tandon, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 05 03:00 AM

The G7 devoted its first session to China, whose growing military and economic clout and willingness to exert its influence at home and abroad have increasingly unnerved Western democracies. Read more »

China’s military commanders come under attack for outdated training

Minnie Chan, South China Morning Post
Posted at May 02 09:24 AM

The People’s Liberation Army has adopted lighter and more powerful automated weapons but instruction of ground troops ‘has not kept up’. Military chiefs have to reboot and adapt to lead the young generation of soldiers, observer says. Read more »

China ups defense spending in 2020 but ‘economic growth cushions increase’

Minnie Chan, South China Morning Post
Posted at Apr 27 07:05 PM

China again increased spending on its military last year, reflecting a global increase in defence expenditures in spite of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Sweden-based research group. Read more »

Chinese Navy marks 72nd anniversary, no new warships unveiled

Minnie Chan, South China Morning Post
Posted at Apr 24 01:29 PM

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy marked its 72nd anniversary on Friday at the country’s biggest naval base, but no new warships were unveiled.   Read more »

Japan, Indonesia pledge tighter military cooperation

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 30 06:24 PM

TOKYO - Japan and Indonesia's ministers of defense and foreign affairs pledged on Tuesday to tighten their military ties to face an assertive China as the two countries hold talks in Tokyo.   Read more »

China announces further military exercises in disputed South China Sea

Kristin Huang, South China Morning Post
Posted at Mar 28 07:58 AM

China's announcement follows the Philippines’ decision to step up ‘sovereignty patrols’ near Whitsun Reef or what Manila calls as Julian Felipe Reef. On Friday, mainland Chinese warplanes carried out the biggest incursion yet into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone. Read more »

‘China’s military must spend more’ to meet US war threat

Jun Mai, South China Morning Post
Posted at Mar 09 01:18 PM

General Xu Qiliang, second in command of the armed forces after President Xi Jinping, said the spending was necessary to prepare the country for the “Thucydides trap”, the idea that conflict is inevitable when one power rises to displace a great one.   Read more »

China-Russia ties: ‘No plans for military alliance’ to take on US

Minnie Chan, South China Morning Post
Posted at Mar 03 05:11 AM

China has no plans to forge a military alliance with Russia, the defense ministry said on Monday, responding to speculation that Beijing and Moscow could develop a united front against NATO. Read more »

PH military installs markers on Cagayan islands to assert sovereignty

Davinci Maru, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 24 08:10 PM

The Philippine military recently installed 2 sovereign markers near Fuga Island in Aparri town, Cagayan to assert the country's sovereignty.   Read more »

US alleges Stanford researcher concealed connection to Chinese army

Mark Hosenball, Reuters
Posted at Feb 20 02:19 PM

A federal grand jury has indicted a Stanford University medical researcher for allegedly concealing and lying about her membership in the Chinese military. Read more »

US, allies should seize on China’s big weaknesses to curb its global ambitions- think tank

Liu Zhen, South China Morning Post
Posted at Feb 06 01:27 PM

The United States and its allies should seize on China’s three main military weaknesses and divert the People's Liberation Army to spread its resources to immediate land, near-sea and offshore disputes to stop it from going global, a US think tank suggested.   Read more »

China’s growing nuclear arsenal raises real risk of attack, top US commander warns

Liu Zhen, South China Morning Post
Posted at Feb 05 12:55 PM

The US military must prepare for the “very real possibility” of a nuclear attack as China and Russia rapidly expand their arsenals, the head of America’s nuclear weapons has warned.   Read more »