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China sends two drones in one week around Taiwan but calls US the ‘empire of hacking’

The grey zone tactics adopted by the People’s Liberation Army against Taiwan allowed Beijing to coerce the enemy without escalating direct military tensions.

India-China poles apart on LAC situation—Chinese scholar after Rajnath-Liu SCO meet in Delhi

At Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in New Delhi, China's defence minister Li Shangfu told Rajnath Singh the LAC was ‘generally stable’. Singh said the basis of bilateral ties has 'eroded'.

China’s military support for Russia to increase. For now it’s training, non-lethal assistance

Beijing sees a strong ally in Lula who has been a longtime proponent of an anti-US stance in international politics.

China is making national security a priority, starting with crackdown on open source data

China’s state security minister writes that the country’s next phase of development is directly linked to the ‘new security pattern’.

French president Macron bags many deals with China but ends up annoying Xi Jinping

PLA has launched a military exercise encircling Taiwan to show displeasure over Taiwan President meeting US House Speaker and PLA Daily published articles warning Taiwan from maintaining close ties with the US.

For Xi, Moscow trip wasn’t enough. Meeting three world leaders in one day has a message

Xi met Spanish President Pedro Sanchez, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim at the Boao Forum in Hainan.

‘A change is coming’—Xi’s parting message to Putin means anything but peace in Ukraine

A post on “182vs13” has gone viral on Chinese social media platform Weibo. It celebrates how Beijing has more diplomatic ties than Taiwan.

Mature, tenacious — Chinese media celebrates ties with Russia ahead of Xi’s Moscow visit

Both China & Russia have relied on bashing the US for its wars in the Middle East — and elsewhere — to justify their close security & economic cooperation.

China achieves what even US could not in the Middle East

US has sanctioned five Chinese companies for selling aerospace components to Iran, which is supplying drones to Russia for use in the Ukraine war.

China increases military budget again. ‘Training and preparation for war’ its focus

The ’two sessions’ meeting, lianghui, began Sunday. It is a key indicator of China’s budgetary matters, economic policies for the next five years.

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Armenia’s buying Indian weapons. This opens entry points to Caucasus, Central Asia & beyond

Yerevan has not only bought several Indian platforms, but has also closely observed the performance of India’s indigenous systems in combat scenarios, bolstering confidence in their reliability.

No competition, have to deliver faster & reliably, says Amazon India V-P of operations

Diving into workings of Gurugram fulfilment centre, Abhinav Singh, V-P (Ops) at Amazon India, offers insights into how company manages logistics, in conversation with ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta.

India used this battlefield hack to keep Soviet-era missile systems firing against Pakistan in Op Sindoor

With spares unavailable, India’s armed forces turned to battlefield improvisation of decades-old systems to keep air defences lethal & unbreached during Pakistan’s attacks.

There’s an all-new N-word now. And India’s soft power has become its hard liability

India is better positioned in the world than at any point post-Cold war. We have to decide if global opinion matters to us or not. If it does, we must engage with their media, think tanks, civil society.