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  • Thursday, 1 April, 2021
    News in-depthTaiwan
    China manoeuvres near Taiwan fuel concerns of potential attack

    Beijing has stepped up military posturing in recent days, raising worries it could invade

  • Saturday, 27 March, 2021
    Chinese politics & policy
    US fears China is flirting with seizing control of Taiwan

    Chinese warplanes fly through island’s air defence zone in latest show of strength by Beijing

  • Friday, 19 February, 2021
    China-India relations
    China admits 4 soldiers died in Himalayan clash with Indian soldiers

    Beijing gives first official narrative of skirmish at border in June last year

  • Tuesday, 2 February, 2021
    News in-depthChinese military
    Beijing lays down a marker in South China Sea

    PLA’s simulated attack on US carrier underscores determination to challenge American dominance

  • Saturday, 30 January, 2021
    US-China relations
    Chinese warplanes simulated attacking US carrier near Taiwan

    Revelation underscores Joe Biden’s difficulties in easing tensions with Beijing

  • Friday, 18 September, 2020
    Taiwan
    China cranks up tensions in Taiwan Strait as US diplomat visits Taipei

    Eighteen Chinese bomber and fighter jets enter Taiwan’s air defence buffer zone

  • Wednesday, 16 September, 2020
    News in-depthChinese politics & policy
    China’s great power play puts Asia on edge

    Domestic insecurity, ambition and the pandemic blamed for Beijing’s belligerence

  • Thursday, 10 September, 2020
    Taiwan
    Taiwan claims ‘severe provocation’ after China military drills

    Exercises reinforce fears Beijing will raise pressure on security after Covid-19 threat fades

  • Tuesday, 8 September, 2020
    US-China relations
    US border agents turn up the heat on Chinese students

    Science scholars say they are being harassed because of tensions between Washington and Beijing

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  • Thursday, 27 August, 2020
    US-China relations
    Chinese military drill ratchets up tension with Washington

    PLA launches missiles in South China Sea capable of hitting US warships and military bases

  • Tuesday, 25 August, 2020
    Zhou Bo
    The risk of China-US military conflict is worryingly high

    The two sides are sleepwalking into confrontation in the South China Sea

  • Thursday, 13 August, 2020
    Taiwan
    China holds military exercises near Taiwan in warning to US

    Tensions mount in region as Taipei announces 10% increase in defence budget

  • Monday, 10 August, 2020
    Coronavirus treatment
    China’s military takes centre stage in Covid-19 vaccine race

    PLA soldiers receive CanSino inoculation as coronavirus accelerates ‘military-civil fusion’

  • Sunday, 12 July, 2020
    News in-depthTaiwan
    Taiwan strives to bolster forces in response to Beijing sabre-rattling

    Boosting reserve forces becomes priority on eve of annual Han Kuang military exercises

  • Saturday, 4 July, 2020
    Asia maritime tensions
    US sends aircraft carriers into South China Sea

    Show of strength as Beijing conducts exercises in contested waters around Paracel Islands

  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2019
    Chinese military
    Beijing’s first China-built aircraft carrier enters service

    New vessel allows projection of growing military power further beyond own shores

  • Thursday, 12 December, 2019
    Jamil Anderlini
    Hong Kong’s protesters need a leader now more than ever

    Without visionary leadership, the territory is headed into a new spiral of violence

  • Saturday, 23 November, 2019
    Chinese politics & policy
    Alleged Chinese spy says he targeted Hong Kong and Taiwan

    Man tells Australia’s intelligence agency that Beijing meddled in protests and elections

  • Sunday, 6 October, 2019
    Jamil Anderlini
    Beijing will have its revenge on Hong Kong

    ‘Asia’s world city’, braced for impending retribution, will never be the same again

  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2019
    Chinese military
    China displays military advances in show of strength

    Beijing unveils missiles and drones in parade to mark 70th anniversary of communist rule

  • Thursday, 1 August, 2019
    Hong Kong politics
    Hong Kong’s PLA chief says protests ‘impermissible’

    Video shows Chinese soldiers training in the territory in full riot gear

  • Monday, 29 July, 2019
    Hong Kong politics
    Talk of Chinese army intervention in Hong Kong rattles nerves

    Beijing seen using military in territory’s political crisis only in ‘extreme’ situation

  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2019
    China
    China’s army can intervene in Hong Kong, says Beijing

    Military can help to ‘maintain social order’ if requested by territory’s government

  • Thursday, 30 May, 2019
    Zhou Bo
    Chinese and US navies must bring down tensions

    Americans should think carefully about how to deal with their rising rival

  • Wednesday, 19 December, 2018
    Cyber Security
    EU investigates huge hack of its diplomatic cables

    Chinese group alleged to be behind years-long cyber attack

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