As 2025 ends, tensions between China and Taiwan are higher — and more overt — than at any point in recent years, fueled by expanded U.S. military support for Taipei, increasingly bold warnings from ...

After several years of planning and doctrinal experimentation, on the last day of 2015, the Chinese armed forces (the People’s Liberation Army, People’s Armed Police, and militia) began its most ...

Around 100 senior officers have been sidelined or vanished since 2022, hollowing out the top ranks and raising questions about the army’s capabilities. By Chris Buckley One was a general who had ...

China’s military also sent warships and aircraft during a second day of exercises designed to show its ability to claim the democratic island. By Chris Buckley and Amy Chang Chien Reporting from ...