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Chinese military

  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    News in-depthNuclear proliferation
    China pushes nuclear ‘no first use’ while expanding its atomic arsenal

    Beijing’s diplomatic offensive against US posture seen as blunting criticism of its own arms build-up

    Two submarines flying Chinese flags
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    Russia and China fly joint air patrols near US for first time

    Manoeuvre marks further deepening of military co-operation between Moscow and Beijing

    A Tu-95 strategic bomber of the Russian air force is refueled in the air during a join Russia-China air patrol
  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    News in-depthAsia maritime tensions
    The flashpoints that threaten a détente between China and the Philippines

    Manila fears control of Sabina Shoal could help Beijing enforce territorial claims over disputed region

    The Philippine Coast Guard patrols beside ships said to be Chinese militia vessels at Sabina Shoal in the South China Sea in April
  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
    News in-depthTaiwan
    Taiwan’s military drills turn serious as China threat escalates

    Annual Han Kuang exercise pivots from scripted performances to realistic battlefield scenarios

    Taiwanese soldiers with guns run through Taipei’s port with a tank in the background as part of the Han Kuang military exercise in 2023
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Nato
    China rejects Nato accusations of supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine

    Beijing accuses military alliance of ‘lies and smears’ and warns it to stay out of Asia

    Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong in the Pacific Ocean south-east of Okinawa
  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
    Taiwan
    China confiscates Taiwanese fishing vessel, Taipei says

    Incident off island of Kinmen close to Chinese coast heightens tensions

    Shihyu, or Lion Islet, one of the Kinmen islands controlled by Taiwan, lies just offshore China’s Xiamen
  • Tuesday, 25 June, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    A deepening stand-off in the South China Sea

    The US is correct to support the Philippines in countering Chinese encroachment

    Members of a military detachment move around aboard the BRP Sierra Madre, run aground on the disputed Second Thomas Shoal
  • Tuesday, 25 June, 2024
    Asia maritime tensions
    Philippines warns of region-wide conflict over South China Sea dispute

    Ambassador to Washington raises spectre of nuclear war as tensions deepen around disputed Second Thomas Shoal

    An aerial view shows the Sierra Madre on the Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea in March 2023
  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    Asia maritime tensions
    Philippines secretly reinforces ship at centre of South China Sea dispute

    The Sierra Madre has become the most dangerous flashpoint in the Indo-Pacific

    The Sierra Madre has been lodged on the disputed Second Thomas Shoal since 1999
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    Asia maritime tensions
    Philippine video shows clash with Chinese coastguard that injured soldier

    Footage released by Manila reveals sharpest escalation yet over disputed Second Thomas Shoal

    A frame grab from a video released by the Philippine military shows Chinese coastguard vessels ramming the Philippine navy’s hull inflatable boats
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    News in-depthTaiwan
    Taiwan’s president urges army to shed nationalist legacy to meet China threat

    Duelling centenary celebrations for military academy underscore armed forces’ fractured identity

    Taiwanese cadets march during the Republic of China Military Academy centennial celebrations in Kaohsiung, Taiwan on Saturday
  • Saturday, 15 June, 2024
    US-China relations
    Xi Jinping claimed US wants China to attack Taiwan

    Chinese president told European Commission president that Washington was trying to goad Beijing into war

    Xi Jinping, centre, meets with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Beijing in April last year
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    US and allies say China is ‘aggressively recruiting’ their fighter pilots

    Five Eyes partners accuse People’s Liberation Army of using western military talent to train its aviators

    A fighter jet about to take off
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Asia maritime tensions
    Philippines warns clashes in South China Sea could spiral into war

    President Ferdinand Marcos Jr says red line would be crossed if any Filipino dies in clashes with Chinese vessels

    Chinese ships flank a smaller Philippine Navy chartered vessel
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    Taiwan
    China kicks off ‘punishment’ drills around Taiwan

    Move marks Beijing’s first military reaction to inauguration of Taiwan’s president

    Chinese military ship northwest of Pengjia Island, off the coast of northern Taiwan
  • Sunday, 19 May, 2024
    Visual story
    The battlegrounds that could decide a US-China war over Taiwan

    Five key military contests are likely to determine the outcome of a conflict

  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
    US-China relations
    US defence chief Lloyd Austin to meet Chinese counterpart this month

    Singapore meeting would be latest step in reopening communication lines between militaries

    Lloyd Austin
  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
    Chinese politics & policy
    Why growing China-Russia military ties worry the west

    Closer co-operation forged through joint exercises is forcing Pentagon and allies to react

    Montage of Xi Jinping, on left, and Vladimir Putin, with a backdrop of tanks and battleships
  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
    Global InsightJohn Reed
    How India’s navy changed tack

    After decades of shunning alliances, New Delhi is rethinking how to project power on the high seas

    A boarding team from the Indian Navy’s INS Talwar (F40)
  • Friday, 3 May, 2024
    FT Magazine
    Taiwan’s everywhere war

    As the threat of a Chinese invasion intensifies, one soldier is waging his own battle on defeatism

    Soldiers participate in the annual Han Kuang military exercises that simulate an anti-landing operations near the coast in New Taipei City, northern Taiwan
  • Sunday, 28 April, 2024
    US-China relations
    US Pacific commander says China is pursuing ‘boiling frog’ strategy

    Retiring Admiral John Aquilino accuses Beijing of gradually raising pressure in South China Sea

    Admiral John ‘Lung’ Aquilino inspects US Marines at ADF Robertson Barracks in Darwin, Australia in March 2022
  • Friday, 19 April, 2024
    Xi tightens grip on China’s military with new information warfare unit

    Beijing launches restructuring of armed forces as it challenges US dominance in Pacific

    Chinese leader Xi Jinping, in military uniform, visits the Central Theater Command of the People’s Liberation Army of China
  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    US-China relations
    US and China defence ministers in first significant contact since 2022

    Pentagon says Lloyd Austin stressed importance of freedom of navigation in call with Dong Jun

    Lloyd Austin
  • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Aukus is gathering momentum and adherents

    The pact reflects an attempt to preserve the strategic balance in the Indo-Pacific

    Australia’s Anthony Albanese, US President Joe Biden and Britain’s Rishi Sunak at a San Diego press conference last year
  • Tuesday, 9 April, 2024
    China Electronics Technology Group Corporation
    China anti-graft agencies investigate top defence group executive

    Probe into manager at military equipment supplier CETC follows shake-up in armed forces and ousting of minister

    Soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army march during a parade to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China at Tiananmen Square on October 1 2019
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