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Beijing Steps Up Military Pressure as Taiwan’s Defense Budget Faces Political Deadlock

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to provoke Taiwan by sending naval vessels to operate around the Taiwan Strait and crossing the median line. However, Taiwan’s ruling an...

China’s Navy Is Shifting Pressure Beyond the Taiwan Strait

China did not launch a large-scale, Taiwan-specific military exercise after the Trump-Xi meeting. But that doesn’t mean the PLAN has been inactive.

Cross-Strait Tensions Grow as Washington and Beijing Test Limits Over Taiwan

As Beijing ramps up pressure on Taiwan, analysts are now questioning whether China’s military and political system are fully prepared for the risks of a potential confrontation wit...

China’s Military Modernization Under Pressure as US Superiority Exposes Flaws

As US forces demonstrate overwhelming technological advantages, China’s military system is showing signs of internal strain, marked by failed systems, leadership purges, and growin...

China dials up pressure after Japanese destroyer transits Taiwan Strait

China dials up pressure after Japanese destroyer transits Taiwan Strait

China turns up economic pressure on US

US urged to act over Chinese pressure

Bloomberg Identifies 81 Chinese Firms in Beijing’s Record Missile Buildup

The Pentagon defended a $1.5 trillion 2027 budget request the next day, with Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Dan Caine telling Congress the goal is to create "outsized dilemmas" for Xi Jin...

Taiwan sends forces to monitor second Chinese ’combat’ patrol in a week

China has ‌pressured Taiwan ‌by increasing its military presence around the island, and Taipei is on high alert ​following a summit between the U.S. and Chinese leaders.

Taiwan to strengthen Pratas islands’ defenses as China steps up pressure

Trump’s Taiwan Strategy Faces New Test as Beijing Turns Up the Pressure

Following the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing, Washington and Tokyo have moved quickly to reinforce their Indo-Pacific coordination while reaffirming support for Taiwan’s self-defense c...

China ramps up missile buildup for a Taiwan war

China’s accelerating missile buildup is increasingly turning industrial capacity, stockpile depth, and sustained precision-strike capability into decisive factors in the emerging m...

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Warning Signs: How China Normalizes Its Military Presence

As its presence becomes more normal, China’s aggressive and illegal behavior will attract less opposition.

Chinese military set to wage legal warfare

China plans to support lethal military action with a strategy that uses laws and lawsuits against adversaries to shock, deter and create the "coercive force to achieve victory," ac...

Why the largest-ever US-Philippine drill, and Japan’s role in it, is making China uneasy

A US and Philippine-led military drill seen as targeting China grew this year into the largest yet, prompting Chinese experts to warn that the annual event will exacerbate regional...

Expanding Frontiers: China’s Military Push Beyond the First Island Chain

Beijing has a deliberate, long-term strategy – one that prioritizes persistence and gradual advantage. 

How China’s military could learn vital lessons from war in Iran

China could gain a “massive strategic advantage” from the war in Iran by reshaping trade in the Middle East and catching up with the US militarily, according to one analyst. Zhu Zh...

Did US pressure before Xi-Trump summit force KMT hand on Taiwan’s defence budget?

Pressure from Washington was likely to have played a decisive role in Taiwan’s opposition parties backing a sharply expanded special defence budget last week, analysts said, as con...

US Space Force Report: China Accelerating Space Warfare Capabilities Toward 2040

Reports from the U.S. military and rumors circulating on Chinese WeChat appeared almost at the same time. Although the sources are different, when combined, they provide a more com...

Taiwan Warns of Military ‘Capability Gap’ After Legislature Caps Arms Procurement

Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan passed the third reading of a special defense bill on May 8, approving a ceiling of NT$780 billion for arms procurement from the United States, while comp...

China Faces Growing Internal Pressure

By Dr. Lamont Colucci U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to meet in person later this spring, after a brief delay tied in part to the conflic...

Taiwan sees only warships and warplanes as China talks peace with opposition

By Yimou Lee and Ben BlanchardTAIPEI, April 10 (Reuters) - Taiwanese officials are tracking what they view as a worrying rise in Chinese naval activity and military pressure agains...