China’s Unusual Decision to Spy On Naval Exercises
Jeremy Page at The Wall Street Journal reports that China sent a surveillance vessel to waters off...
by Cindy | Jul 22, 2014
Jeremy Page at The Wall Street Journal reports that China sent a surveillance vessel to waters off...
by Cindy | Jan 28, 2014
Andrea Chen at South China Morning Post reports that China is leading an international team of...
by Natalie Ornell | Dec 6, 2013
China reacted strongly on Friday to a Japanese parliamentary resolution condemning its new air...
by Josh Rudolph | Nov 29, 2013
With international tensions mounting over China’s newly declared Air Defense Identification...
by Josh Rudolph | Oct 29, 2013
A little more than a year after China’s first aircraft carrier joined the PLA’s naval...
by Natalie Ornell | Jul 28, 2013
The New York Times’s Jane Perlez reports that China has sent four ships to patrol disputed islands in the East China Sea in the past week in addition to flying an early-warning aircraft between Okinawa and Miyako, all part...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 10, 2013
China’s State Council has submitted widely-anticipated plans for the restructuring of several government agencies to the National People’s Congress. The seventh such initiative in the past 30 years, the new plan aims...
by Scott Greene | Mar 7, 2013
While both sides may be moving to ease tensions in the disputed Diaoyu Islands, Reuters reports that the Chinese navy continues to send ships to the area in an attempt to overwhelm the inferior Japanese forces tasked with...
by Josh Rudolph | Jan 25, 2013
China Daily reports on CCP general secretary Xi Jinping’s recent meeting with a Japanese envoy in Beijing, in which standing tensions over the Diaoyu Islands were indirectly addressed: Xi Jinping on Friday said China and...
by Scott Greene | Jan 23, 2013
A Japanese envoy visited Beijing on Tuesday to discuss simmering tensions between the two sides, according to the Associated Press. From the South China Morning Post: Natsuo Yamaguchi made no comments upon his arrival but told...
by Scott Greene | Jan 21, 2013
U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton stood with Japan’s Foreign Minister on Friday and said that America opposed “any unilateral actions that would seek to undermine Japanese administration” of the Diaoyu...
by Scott Greene | Jan 17, 2013
A Foreign Ministry spokesman announced on Wednesday that China would carry out a geographical survey of the Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea, according to Xinhua News. From AFP (via the South China Morning Post): The mapping...
by Scott Greene | Jan 10, 2013
Japan sent fighter jets to the disputed Diaoyu Islands on Thursday after it detected several Chinese military planes in the area, according to Japanese media. From AFP (via the South China Morning Post): The Chinese planes were...
by Scott Greene | Jan 2, 2013
The Diplomat’s J. Michael Cole writes that amid escalating tensions in the East China Sea and South China Sea, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has shifted nearly a dozen decommissioned warships to...
by Scott Greene | Dec 27, 2012
Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun on Thursday said the Chinese military is on guard against Japanese jet activity near the Diaoyu Islands, according to Xinhua News: “We will decisively fulfill our tasks and missions...
by Scott Greene | Dec 13, 2012
The Diplomat’s James Holmes writes that Beijing has found “a low-risk way to make a high-impact statement” by taking to the skies in its dispute with Japan over the Diaoyu Islands, though the advantages become...
by Scott Greene | Dec 13, 2012
Japan scrambled fighter jets to the skies above the disputed Diaoyu Islands after it alleged that a Chinese surveillance plane violated its airspace on Thursday, according to The New York Times: In an embarrassment for the...
by Melissa M. Chan | Nov 20, 2012
While China is selling more commercial jets and unveiling its newest stealth fighter, the China State Shipbuilding Corporation is calling for the building of more aircraft carriers. The company is owned by the Chinese state....