Analysts believe the purges are designed both to reform the military and to ensure loyalty to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who ...

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 ...

A recent draft report from the Pentagon revealed that China has likely loaded more than 100 intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs. These missiles are in its newest missile silo fields. The ...

Imperial China faced enormous hardships by the 1860s, including the Taiping rebellion, two Opium wars, multiple concurrent rebellions, and devastating natural disasters, leading to military ...

Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong stated that “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” Today, Communist China’s military power has never been greater. A new Pentagon report warns that the ...

It’s one of the most consequential questions in the world today – and no one really knows the answer. January 09, 2026 In 2024, U.S. intelligence reported something that sounds like a dark comedy: up ...

HONG KONG — China's military on Monday dispatched air, navy and rocket troops to conduct joint live-fire drills around the island of Taiwan, which Beijing called a “stern warning” against separatist ...