Chinese military strategy is deeply steeped in its politics. Mao Tse Tung’s dictum that ‘war is politics with bloodshed’ will ...

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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 ...

China’s military strategy for future conflicts has evolved into “national total war,” a whole-of-nation mobilization effort aimed squarely at overcoming “the strong enemy” it sees in the United States ...

China’s use of military robotics is a warning to the United States and Taiwan to accelerate robotics deployment and ...

While the world’s attention has been elsewhere, Beijing appears to be quietly weaponizing critical infrastructure across the South Pacific. Under the guise of commercial development, Chinese ...

Much of the public discussion on China’s development of autonomous weapons systems thus far has centered on the sea and air domains but have not grappled with how the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) ...

President Trump’s new security strategy described China’s threat to Taiwan in purely economic, not military, terms. China has long spoken of retaking Taiwan, which it views as a breakaway province.

U.S. Navy Master-at-Arms 3rd Class Robert Ames mans an M240B machine gun in the hangar bay of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) as the ship gets underway, April 15, ...

The final days of 2025 saw Taiwan surrounded by Chinese warships, aircraft and coast guard vessels in what the Chinese Ministry of Defence described as a serious warning to ‘Taiwan independence’ ...