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'Turn to war at any time': What's behind China's Taiwan blockade drills?

China has also deployed its Liaoning aircraft carrier as part of its Joint Sword-2024B blockade drills around Taiwan, initiated during the early hours of Monday

China is building world's largest amphibious assault ship. Details here

China's Type 076 amphibious assault ship is significantly larger than the US Navy's America-class vessels and Japan's Izumo-class helicopter carriers

Indo-China naval race hots up as Indian, Chinese warships dock in Sri Lanka

Beijing is also continuing efforts to establish additional overseas military installations and secure access agreements, including in regions near New Delhi

41 Chinese aircraft, seven vessels detected around Taiwan, 32 cross border

Earlier on Thursday, the Taiwanese MND detected eight PLA (People's Liberation Army) aircraft and six PLAN (People's Liberation Army Navy) vessels around its territory

China deploys new laser weapon on amphibious navy ship. What we know so far

Recent incidents, such as the downing of Houthi drones in the Red Sea, have heightened interest in arming naval warships with directed energy weapons

Three Chinese aircraft cross into Taiwan's Air Defence Identification Zone

Three aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait and entered Taiwan's southeastern and southwestern Air Defence Identification Zone

New advanced Chinese submarine may be in the works. Here's what we know

The new Chinese submarine could be an advanced variant of an existing class of conventionally-powered vessels that are also being built for Pakistan

Taiwan detects 4 Chinese aircraft, surge in activity near its territory

Amid the growing threat, Taiwan, starting Monday, began military exercises to test its war-fighting capabilities

China making inroads into key choke points in Indian Ocean: US lawmaker

China is making inroads into key choke points along the Indian Ocean and obstructing the right to freely navigate the waters, an influential American lawmaker has said, expressing concerns over increasing Chinese investment in South Asia. Congresswoman Young Kim, who is chairman of the Subcommittee on Indo-Pacific in the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said South Asia holds immense significance for the US foreign policy and national security interests. The region faces a dynamic geopolitical landscape that presents challenges for the US policy objectives. The Indian Ocean is a crucial channel for global trade, an estimated 80 per cent of maritime oil trade and 40 per cent of world trade passes through the Indian Ocean, she said. CCP is making inroads into key choke points along these routes and obstructing the right to freely navigate the waters. In recent years, we have seen Chinese ports in Pakistan and Sri Lanka, military installations in Djibouti and infrastructure investments

What is China's Fire Dragon missile, which PLA thinks can sink US warships?

The missiles have the ability to destroy the US Navy's Ticonderoga-class cruisers, according to a computer simulation conducted by the Chinese People's Liberation Army

Chinese Premier Qiang, Oz PM Albanese agree to resolve differences amicably

Chinese Premier Li Qiang, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and senior ministers of both administrations met at Parliament House on Monday to discuss thorny issues, including lingering trade barriers, conflict between their militaries in international waters and China's desire to invest in critical minerals. Li, China's most senior leader after President Xi Jinping, arrived in the South Australian state capital of Adelaide on Saturday and the national capital of Canberra late Sunday in the first visit to the country by a Chinese premier in seven years. Li planned to underscore China's interest in buying a bigger stake in Australia's critical minerals sector, which is essential to the global transition to renewable energy sources, by visiting a Chinese-controlled lithium processing plant in Western Australia state Tuesday. Li visited New Zealand before Australia and is scheduled to stop in Malaysia before returning to China. Bilateral relations have improved markedly since

Taiwan detects 8 Chinese aircraft, 8 naval vessels near its territory

In response to China's action, Taiwanese armed forces sent aircraft and naval ships and deployed coastal-based missile systems to monitor China's activity

Taiwan detects 23 Chinese fighter jets, 7 naval vessels near its territory

Taiwan, officially known as the Republic of China, has long been a contentious issue in China's foreign policy

Man on speedboat was acting on his own, no reason to be suspicious: China

According to the Taiwan authorities, after travelling in his little boat across the 160 km Taiwan Strait, which divides the island nation from China, the guy was taken into custody by coast guard

China's drills appear like 'rehearsal' for Taiwan invasion: US admiral

Admiral Samuel Paparo said that the recent military exercises of China around Taiwan 'looked like a rehearsal' for an invasion

Taiwan detects 13 Chinese military aircraft, 9 naval vessels around island

The Ministry for National Defence of Taiwan detected 13 Chinese military aircraft, five naval vessels, and four coast guard ships around Taiwan

Taiwan detects 62 Chinese military aircraft, 27 vessels in its vicinity

The Ministry emphasised that the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) military exercises, indicative of its hegemonic mindset, have undermined regional peace and stability

China stages mock missile strikes on Taiwan, uses live missiles in drills

China views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory and denounces Lai as a 'separatist'

China's 2nd day of war games around Taiwan tests ability to 'seize power'

The two days of drills in the Taiwan Strait and around groups of Taiwan-controlled islands near the Chinese coast started just three days after Lai took office

Taiwan detects 18 Chinese aircraft, four naval vessels near island

Since September 2020, China has increased its use of grey zone tactics by incrementally increasing the number of military aircraft and naval ships operating around Taiwan