Over the past two decades, China has gone from a follower to a major global force in drones. It has been seen as an advantage as drones are becoming more central to warfare.
Days before the announcement, Xi in a politburo meet had stressed need to maintain ‘absolute leadership’ over China’s armed forces, saying military personnel must obey CCP commands.
In doing so, the Pentagon is doubling down on an earlier decision to label the crown jewels of China’s corporate world as threats to US national security.
The punishments are expected to serve as a warning to senior officers that rank, influence and political ties offer no guarantee of protection from Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive.
Rather than functioning as conventional propaganda, the video operates as a device for interpretation, subtly shaping expectations about future developments in China’s naval trajectory.
ASPI report says 'no-limits' partnership between the countries is advancing geo-economic fragmentation, accelerating Beijing’s military modernisation with Moscow’s operational knowledge.
By portraying growth as somewhat defensive, Chinese commentary downplays how a defence budget of 1.91 trillion yuan may influence global strategic calculations.
Gerald Eddie Brown was arrested in Indiana. The Five Eyes intelligence alliance had issued a rare warning that China was targeting veterans to bolster its capabilities.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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