Once a sleeping giant, China today is the world’s second largest economy–the leading manufacturer of consumer goods and military equipment–a dramatic turn-around that alarms many Westerners. China’s fragile relationship with it’s pacific neighbors like Australia, […]
For the first time in 16 years, the United States Air Force has no heavy bombers at Anderson Air Base, Guam. When five B-52s Stratofortresses left Andersen Air Force Base on the Pacific island on […]
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In a tweet published early on Wednesday morning, the US Navy confirmed three of its warships had transited the South China Sea “in support of security and stability in the Indo-Pacific region”. The Defence Department […]
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Taipei says its fighters were sent to break up PLA Air Force flight that crossed median of Taiwan Strait Night drill by J-11 fighters and KJ-500 early warning aircraft was message from Beijing, analyst says […]
The Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) scrambled its fighter aircraft a total of 675 times in fiscal year in response to Chinese military aircraft approaching the country’s airspace: a 5.8% increase compared with the same […]
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The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has declared that the Type 052D Luyang III-class destroyer Guiyang (pennant number 119) and the Type 054A Jiangkai II-class frigate Zaozhuang (pennant number 542) were officially declared ready for combat earlier this year by […]
Taiwan’s air force has again scrambled F-16 to warn off approaching Chinese J-11 jets and KJ-500 AEW&C, in the latest rise in military tension between Beijing and the island it claims as its own. Taiwan […]
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