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Nine top PLA generals dismissed from China’s Parliament

December 30, 2023

Beijing: In a major purge of the Chinese military, nine senior generals of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), including senior ...

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Government to set up intelligence gathering posts along China border

October 2, 2023

Mago (Arunachal Pradesh): Border posts of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) along the India-China frontier from Ladakh to Arunachal Pradesh ...

Chinese Defence Minister Gen. Li's absence at top military meeting heightens speculation

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Chinese Defence Minister General Li’s absence at top military meeting heightens speculation

September 16, 2023

Beijing: Speculation about the missing Chinese Defence Minister General Li Shangfu may have been removed and detained became rife after ...

China renews war threats as Taiwan launches its military exercises Beijing: China Thursday renewed its threat to attack Taiwan following almost a week of war games near the island. Taiwan has called Beijing's claims to the self-governing democracy “wishful thinking" and launched its own military exercises. Taiwan's “collusion with external forces to seek independence and provocation will only accelerate their own demise and push Taiwan into the abyss of disaster,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a daily briefing. “Their pursuit of Taiwan independence will never succeed, and any attempt to sell the national interest will be met with a complete failure," Wang told reporters. China's attempt to intimidate the Taiwanese public and advertise its strategy for blockading and potentially invading the island was nominally prompted by a visit to Taipei last week by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The US, Japan and allies have denounced the exercises, with the Group of Seven industrialised nations issuing a statement at a recent meeting expressing its concern. On Wednesday, Britain's government summoned Chinese Ambassador Zheng Zeguang to the Foreign Office to demand an explanation of "Beijing's aggressive and wide-ranging escalation against Taiwan”. Taiwan says Beijing used Pelosi's visit as a pretext to raise the stakes in its feud with Taipei, firing missiles into the Taiwan Strait and over the island into the Pacific Ocean. China also sent planes and ships across the midline in the strait that has long been a buffer between the sides, which separated amid civil war in 1949. In a lengthy policy statement on Taiwan issued Wednesday, China distorted the historical record, including the United Nations' 1972 resolution that transferred the China seat on the Security Council from Beijing to Taipei, Taiwan's Cabinet-level Mainland Affairs Council said. The Chinese statement also discarded a pledge not to send troops or government officials to Taiwan that was contained in previous statements. The UN resolution makes no mention of Taiwan's status, although China regards it as a foundational document proclaiming the Communist Party's right to control over the island. The Taiwanese council's statement said China was orchestrating its moves against Taiwan ahead of the ruling Communist Party's 20th National Congress to be held later this year. President and party leader Xi Jinping is expected to receive a third five-year term at the conclave, after leading a relentless crackdown on political figures accused of corruption, human rights activists and civil society groups. Xi's suppression of free speech and political opposition in Hong Kong was also seen as a factor behind Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen winning a second term in 2020. China says it plans to annex Taiwan under the now widely discredited “one country, two systems" format applied in Hong Kong. The concept has been thoroughly rejected in Taiwanese public opinion polls in which respondents have overwhelmingly favoured the status-quo of de-facto independence. The Chinese statement is “full of wishful thinking, and ignores the facts," the Mainland Affairs Council said in its press release. The “crude and clumsy political operations by the Beijing authorities further highlight its arrogant thinking pattern of attempting to use force to invade and destroy the Taiwan Strait and regional peace," the release said. “The authorities in Beijing deceive themselves. We warn the Beijing authorities to immediately stop threatening Taiwan with force and spreading false information," it said. Taiwan placed its military under high alert during the Chinese drills but took no direct countermeasures. It held artillery drills off its southwestern coast facing China that ran through Thursday, illustrating the challenges the People's Liberation Army would face were it to launch an invasion across the strait. AP China, Taiwan

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China releases TV documentary showcasing PLA’s ability to attack Taiwan

August 7, 2023

Taipei: China has released a new documentary about the army's preparation to attack Taiwan and showcasing soldiers pledging to give ...

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China releases TV documentary showcasing army’s ability to attack Taiwan

August 6, 2023

Taipei: China has released a new documentary about the army's preparation to attack Taiwan and showcasing soldiers pledging to give ...

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China sends dozens of warplanes toward Taiwan ahead of island’s anti-invasion exercises

July 22, 2023

Taipei: China sent dozens of warplanes, including fighter jets and bombers, toward Taiwan, the island's Defence Ministry said Saturday, marking ...

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China sends large group of warplanes, navy ships towards Taiwan in forceful display

July 12, 2023

Taipei (Taiwan): China sent navy ships and a large group of warplanes, including fighter jets and bombers, toward Taiwan over ...

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China sends warships, fighter jets near Taiwan during Yellen’s Beijing visit

July 8, 2023

Beijing: China's People's Liberation Army sent 13 aircraft and 6 vessels into airspace and waters around Taiwan over the past ...

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Challenges in Manipur will take some time to settle: CDS

May 30, 2023

Pune: Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan Tuesday said challenges in Manipur have not disappeared, but expressed hope that ...

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China rolls out new wartime recruitment rules

April 13, 2023

Beijing: China has released a new set of revised rules for military recruitment in wartime, including giving priority to the ...

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DOGE

November 20, 2024

It goes to the credit of Indian voters that they could realise absolute power has chances to turn a single...

November 19, 2024

In what can be seen as an ominous development for India, a cargo ship from Pakistan recently docked at the...

November 18, 2024

Sri Lanka is in the grip of a political tsunami with the coalition of National People’s Power (NPP), led by...

November 17, 2024

If I have a dispute with you, I can solve it in one of three ways. One is by talking...

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