Launched over two years ago, China’s first home-built aircraft carrier was put into service on Dec. 17 in a ceremony attended by Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Sanya, on the southern island province of Hainan. Christened Shandong, the vessel’s class is 002, a modified version of China’s first carrier, the Type 001 Liaoning. That ship ...
In late August, China deployed forces near the Hong Kong border as the city was in turmoil due to the anti-extradition bill protests. State-run media said that the deployment was a routine rotation of forces that Beijing has kept stationed in the region since acquiring Hong Kong from the UK in 1997. However, it is ...
The Chinese military is deploying a vast surveillance network over the South China Sea using drones. Drone tech has increased Beijing’s ability to collect intelligence from even the hardest-to-reach regions, according to a report by the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNS). Drone watch in the South China Sea Drones in the surveillance system offer high-definition ...
Chinese social media users are venting their anger against Starbucks after the company’s Hong Kong store started giving out coffee in cups with pro-democracy slogans. Starbucks controversy The controversy started with a Chinese Weibo user who visited a Starbucks barista in the Tsim Sha Tsui region of Hong Kong. When the user received the coffee ...
Space is increasingly becoming the new battleground and China is planning to dominate it. The People’s Liberation Army recently released a whitepaper report that outlines its space war plans. Preparing for space war The whitepaper identified the United States as the enemy, arguing that China has to strengthen its defenses against American aggression. It accuses ...
A war with China seems inevitable for Taiwan at some point given that President Xi Jinping has indicated that he would use military force to annex the island nation if needed. Submarines will be an important weapon in such a war. While Taiwan has a respectable military, it dwarfs in comparison to the Chinese. But ...
Meng Hongwei, the former Interpol chief, has pleaded guilty to charges of corruption in China. Arrested last October, Meng will receive the court’s verdict at a later date. The corruption charges During a trial at a court in Tianjin, Meng admitted to having received bribes to the tune of US$2.11 million by misusing his position ...
Chinese vessels recently tried to intimidate Australian pilots with lasers. This is only one of the many instances of intimidation experienced by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) flagship HMAS Canberra. Euan Graham’s experience in the South China Sea with Chinese vessels Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2019 (IPE19) is a large-scale defense engagement between Australia and Sri Lanka. ...
Today is the 13th anniversary of the June 4 massacre in Beijing and I remember it like it was yesterday. I was staying at the house of the New Zealand Chinese poet Gu Cheng and his wife Xie Ye on Waiheke Island. When we turned on the Concert Programme at 8 a.m. to catch the ...
The Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 is one of the bloodiest assaults on a student movement. Hundreds of unarmed civilians were brutally attacked by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) when the protestors asked for their nation to be a democracy. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has censored the topic to such an extent that not ...
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