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Latest news, features and opinion on the military in China, including the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the development of warships, aircraft carriers and fighter jets, spending on the armed forces and reforms and modernisation. US-China and mainland-Taiwan military tensions and the deployment of China’s armed forces overseas are also covered.

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  • Eastern naval and coastguard units practise responses to an attack on a flotilla
  • Drill follows tensions in the East China Sea and the Taiwan Strait
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Concerns about Beijing’s potential to threaten US national security have spurred several bills seeking more scrutiny about who is representing Chinese interests.

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Joint exercises in Gulf of Oman focus on rescuing hijacked merchant ships and feature Chinese and Iranian special ops teams and PLA guided-missile destroyer.

PLA cuts ties with China Far East International Tendering Co, saying the company violated confidentiality rules by forwarding information via WeChat and email and storing documents on unprotected computers.

Experts issue warnings about the Chinese military build-up in the western Pacific and about expanded ties between China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.

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Maritime Security Belt – 2024 is second time China has conducted joint drills in Indian Ocean following Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel and start of Gaza war.

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PLA says increased military spending aims to ‘improve strategic capacity’ to defend sovereignty, security and development interests amid ‘instability and uncertainty’ and ‘complex and grim’ anti-separatist struggle.

Bipartisan support on show amid concern ‘every bit of value flowing’ to companies in the industry ‘will be used to strengthen the CCP and the PLA’.

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Update on NPC sidelines by PLA Navy admiral and political overseer Yuan Huazhi represents first official confirmation of Beijing’s efforts to build a fourth aircraft carrier.

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Japan’s aerial dominance in World War II was ended by volunteer US and British fighter pilots who protected Free China in planes bearing a Flying Tigers logo designed by Disney’s best and brightest.

Li was abruptly dismissed last year for reasons that have not been made public and his name has now been removed from the members of the top command body.

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Long overdue upgrade is part of Taiwanese navy’s efforts to modernise in the face of growing military pressure from Beijing, ministry source tells the Post.

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Joint Forces commander at Pentagon event in Silicon Valley says last three years marked by ‘erosion of strategic, operational and tactical’ warnings as PLA evolves.

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A court in China has jailed a man for 10 months after he admitted to having an affair with the wife of a soldier serving in the People’s Liberation Army.