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South China Sea Tensions Surge as China Steps Up Patrols around Scarborough Shoal
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Southern Theatre Command has announced a fresh round of naval and air patrols around Scarborough Shoal, the coral outcrop that has become the unlikeliest flashpoint of the Indo-Pacific’s simmering strategic contest. The declaration, terse but…
China-linked machine tools and chips: claims of a supply chain behind Russia’s Oreshnik missile
European governments have often treated dialogue with Beijing as a practical channel in foreign policy, including in managing risks linked to Russia’s war against Ukraine. A recent investigation by The Telegraph has prompted a different focus: whether Chinese-origin industrial equipment…
Reclaiming Port of Darwin From China: Australia Sends a Signal of Resolve
In an increasingly volatile world, where strategic certainty is at a premium, Australia’s recent decision to reclaim control of the Port of Darwin represents more than a policy adjustment — it is a confident assertion of national interest that other…
Xi ally Zhang Youxia faces investigation as PLA purge reaches the top
China’s Defence Ministry has said it is investigating General Zhang Youxia, one of the People’s Liberation Army’s most senior officers and a vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, for “serious violations of discipline and law”. General Liu Zhenli, the chief…
Beijing Gets What It Wants:Britain’s China Miscalculation
There is something peculiarly British about managing to lose an argument twice. The row over China’s proposed “super-embassy” in London manages exactly that trick: a present government that waves it through with a shrug, and a previous one that quietly…
China, Russia and Iran join South Africa for BRICS naval drills off Cape Town
CAPE TOWN — Warships from China, Russia and Iran have begun a week of naval drills with South Africa in waters off Cape Town, in an exercise organised under the BRICS grouping as Washington escalates action against Venezuelan oil shipments.…
China’s Wang Yi condemns record US Taiwan arms package as PLA drills intensify around the island
China has broadened its latest round of military activity around Taiwan as Foreign Minister Wang Yi criticised what Beijing describes as a record United States arms package for the island, linking the sale to what he called “provocations” by Taiwan’s…
China’s Sanctions on America Are Loud, Symbolic – and Strategically Empty
Beijing insists that Taiwan is the immovable core of its national interest, the issue on which there can be no compromise and no retreat. Yet when confronted with the largest American arms package ever approved for the island, China’s response…
How China Is Systematically Undermining Western Security
For years, Washington preferred euphemism to clarity when discussing China’s military rise. It spoke of “modernisation”, of “regional ambitions”, of a power merely seeking its place in the world. That indulgence has now evaporated. In unusually blunt language, the Pentagon…
Beijing’s Nuclear Leap: China’s Missile Deployment Signals Strategic Sea Change
A draft Pentagon report concluded this week that Beijing has likely deployed more than 100 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) across a series of newly constructed silo fields — a development with profound implications for the strategic balance between East and…