US triggers China’s urgency to strengthen nuclear deterrent
On Monday, The New York Times quoted nuclear weapons experts from the Federation of American Scientists as saying that China has built a new silo for launching nuclear missiles in the Hami prefecture of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. China now owns 110 silos, according to the US media. On June 30, the Washington Post published the findings of researchers from US think tank James Martin Centre for Nonproliferation Studies, who identified around 120 new silos near the city of Yumen, Northwest China's Gansu Province.…
Casualties of arrogance: China has blown its historic opportunity
Chennai: Until recently, China was unmistakably trying to be a hegemon in the image of the United States, increasingly complementing its growing hard power with soft power. But China seems to have missed its opportunity to build a serious rival to, or even supplant, the existing world economic order fashioned by the US following World War II. All the elements of success seemed to be falling into place for China . It launched the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a transnational infrastructure investment program intended to define a vision…
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CHINA FIRE POWER China , officially the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), is a sovereign state located in East Asia . It is the world's most populous country , with a population of over 1.35 billion . The PRC is a single-party state governed by the Communist Party , with its seat of government in the capital city of Beijing . It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces , five autonomous regions , four direct-controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin , Shanghai , and Chongqing ), and …
Japan Poll Reveals China’s Military Power Tops Security Concerns
DefenseNews: In the latest Japan government survey released on January 9, 2026, the Japanese public identified China’s rapidly expanding military capabilities as their foremost security concern, surpassing even North Korea’s nuclear threats. With 68% of respondents highlighting China’s military technology advancements and activities near Japan and in the South China Sea, public anxiety has grown significantly over the past three years. This surge in concern coincides with heightened geopolitical tensions, recent Chinese military drills near J…
China ‘will never eclipse US’, says new military report
CHINA will never become the dominant power in Asia and its strategic rise should not determine the future structure of the Australian Defence Force, according to a major Kokoda Foundation report. The strategic think tank’s report, to be released today, is likely to ease fears of an expansionist China following President Xi Jinping’s pledge in Canberra that China would never inflict war upon nations in the region. The provocative report challenges the popular assumption that China’s strategic clout and economi…
China To Engage In '6 Inevitable Wars' Involving U.S., Japan, India And More
China's announcement last weekend of an Air Defense Identification Zone, which includes disputed areas of the East China Sea, has ratcheted up tensions between China and her neighbors, leading some to believe that war is imminent. The new air defense area includes the airspace above the hotly disputed cluster of tiny islands known as the Diaoyu to China and the Senkaku to the Japanese. International reaction to the ADIZ, particularly from Japan and its ally the U.S., has been uniformly defiant. In addition to official stateme…
INDIA-CHINA RELATIONS: NEXT STEPS – ANALYSIS
Sometime during the fall this year Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to visit India as part of the agreed high level bilateral exchange. Xi, who also leads the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the country’s military as chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), would be more powerful than his two predecessors Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin. Xi Jinping has recently unveiled his “thoughts on national defence” which include “not an inch of Chinese territory” will be given up, and if China fights a war it will be determined…
New US sanctions on China morally chaotic: Global Times
China: The US Commerce Department on Monday added another 11 Chinese companies to its Entity List, accusing them of participating in "human rights violations and abuses" in China's "forced labor and "involuntary collection of biometric data" targeting Muslim minority groups in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. This is the third batch of Chinese companies targeted by the US Commerce Department to interfere in the Xinjiang-related affairs. It is believed that in addition to causing diffi…
Philippines, Malaysia and Japan take on China over illegal territorial claims, especially the South China Sea
China’s ties with key SE Asian nations and Japan appear to be worsening over Beijing’s aggressive policy to claim territories with scant regard for international law. The Philippines on Sunday publicly called on China to comply with the 2016 arbitral ruling, which invalidated its massive claim over the resource-rich South China Sea, four years since the decision was handed down by an international court in The Hague, Netherlands. "Compliance in good faith with the award would be consistent with the obligations of the Philippines …
India and the US Re-balance to the Asia-Pacific
The much touted US pivot/re-balance to the Asia-Pacific has drawn considerable flak of late. From the Syrian chemical weapons use to Russia’s revanchism, the questioning of America’s leadership has seen the pivot naysayers become louder. President Obama has firmly recognized the limits of American power. The Commander of the US Pacific Air Forces has admitted that the resources for the pivot haven’t come his way even as the head of the US Pacific Command has made clear America’s inability to conduct amphibious assaults. To top these of…
US sends Aircraft Carriers in South China Sea after China's ‘campaign of bullying’
US aircraft carriers have sailed through the South China Sea as Washington accused Beijing of a "campaign of bullying" in the disputed region. USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan sailed along with their strike groups into the sea in a major show of strength to China. Pictures show the steel armada sailing through the region that has been the source of years of tensions between the US and China. The nuclear-powered aircraft carriers launched F/A 18E Super Hornet fighter jets, and were joined by guided missile destroyers and cruisers in…
China rules out Air Defence Zone along Sino-India border
China on Thursday ruled out establishing an air defence zone along the India-China border like it recently did over the disputed islands in the East China Sea, saying such zones are created only in coastal areas beyond territorial airspace. "I want to clarify that on the concept of Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ), it is an area of airspace established by coastal state beyond its territorial airspace. So, the question does not arise," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang told a media briefing here. He was respon…
Intellectual ferment in China
On the development of a new Chinese worldview and seeing China as a powerhouse FOR the last few decades, to go no further, China has been a powerhouse of ideas. There is an intellectual awakening of which little is known in India, the one country which ought to know of it, for two good reasons. The common place one is that India’s friendly relations with China are not unmixed with occasional sparring over the boundary dispute. The other, which escapes most, is that the two countries are in the same boat and can learn a lot from each o…
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