As Speaker Pelosi travels across Asia in the last several days, videos have emerged of the People’s Liberation Army moving ballistic missile systems and armoured fighting vehicles around the province… Continue reading "OSINT Suggests China Massing Equipment In Province Nearest to Taiwan"
On 10 July, the opening ceremony for the Sea Guardians-2 maritime exercise was held at a military port in Wusong, Shanghai. Marking the seventh such exercise between the Pakistani and… Continue reading "China & Pakistan Holds Navy Exercise Off Shanghai"
The highly anticipated launch of China’s Type 003 aircraft carrier, now officially named Fujian, took place on 17 June. The launching ceremony of the Fujian, which is the most advanced… Continue reading "China Launches Fujian Type 003 Carrier – Here’s What We Know"
The Indian Navy (IN) has stated in a submission to the Standing Committee on Defence of the Parliament that it is building up capacity to ensure it will match the… Continue reading "Indian Navy: Using Geography Advantage To Match China; Lists Planned Acquisitions"
On 24 January, an F-35C of Carrier Air Wing 2 attempted to land on the USS Carl Vinson which was operating in the South China Sea. The result of the… Continue reading "US Beats China to Retrieving Sunken F-35"
A People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) warship allegedly lasered a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) surveillance plane while transiting the Arafura sea, within Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The “serious… Continue reading "RAAF P-8A Hit by Laser During “Dangerous” Encounter with Chinese Navy"
As the scale and breadth of destruction in Tonga becomes clear, additional international assistance has arrived in the form of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) and Japanese Maritime Self… Continue reading "East Asian Navies Arrive In Tonga – Relief Efforts Continue"
Highlighting geography and logistics, the Taiwanese Ministry of Defense reported to lawmakers that it is confident that a full-scale PRC invasion of the island would be very difficult for China… Continue reading "Taiwanese Ministry of Defense Assesses Chinese Invasion Would Be Very Difficult"
This year, China had intensified its activities in the South China Sea leading to rising tensions with both Malaysia and the Philippines. Beginning in March, the Whitsun Reef incident saw… Continue reading "China and ASEAN Agree to Avoid Escalatory Actions in the South China Sea"
China has long stood as the textbook example of unhealthy demographics. Implemented in 1979, the one-child policy has resulted in an increasingly top-heavy population pyramid, a declining birth rate well… Continue reading "Demographic Issues Effecting Chinese Military"