The U.S. Defense Department says China’s growing hard power is increasingly a threat to the United States, according to a new report released on Tuesday. Chinese President Xi Jinping has set the goal ...

On March 13, 2026, China issued the outline for its 15th Five-Year Plan — a core document defining Chinese government policies into the next decade. In the hierarchy of Chinese sources, Five-Year Plan ...

After several years of planning and doctrinal experimentation, on the last day of 2015, the Chinese armed forces (the People’s Liberation Army, People’s Armed Police, and militia) began its most ...

For years, China has flown military jets near Taiwan almost daily. Then they suddenly stopped, leaving analysts to wonder why. By Chris Buckley Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan Taiwan has grown ...

HONG KONG, Feb 24 (Reuters) - China's ongoing military corruption purges are leaving serious deficiencies in its command structure and are likely to have hampered the readiness of its rapidly ...

John Culver is one of the world’s foremost authorities on the Chinese military, a subject he began studying as a CIA analyst ...

Commercial satellite imagery shows that China’s state-owned aviation company has dramatically expanded manufacturing facilities for military aircraft, including the fifth-generation J-20 fighter, with ...

Arthur Herman’s assertion that the “most recent era of great-power competition is over,” with China “sliding into a distant second place,” amounts to wishful thinking (“America Is the Sole Superpower ...