Military diplomacy – including senior-level visits, port calls, and joint exercises – has become a vital tool of Chinese ...

China’s military diplomacy is not only about defending national security, but about sending “envoys of peace,” Xinhua declared in a December 2014 article. “This year, ...

WASHINGTON — In August 2022, after former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, China’s military did the talking. It lobbed ballistic missiles around the island, some landing just inside ...

While China almost froze its military diplomacy with the United States in 2023, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) was busy enhancing its cooperation with other foreign militaries. According to the ...

Beijing has repeatedly accused the Philippines of being in a pawn in U.S. efforts to contain China's rise and touted ...

Key promotions have eluded Dong, two of whose predecessors fell in corruption probes, with implications for Beijing's military diplomacy China's defence ministers, despite their limited role in ...

China's military diplomacy has made remarkable progress since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2012 because of the arduous efforts of the country's leadership, ...

China's hard-line diplomacy will end "in tragedy" and plunge the country into "political peril," while its hawkish posture was ... a China military affairs professor at National Defense ...

China’s refusal was not the first time that China’s diplomatic strategy on military AI included a gap between words and actions. China’s 2016 and 2018 position papers to the United Nations discussions ...

General Li Shangfu, a veteran of China's military modernisation drive, rose through the ranks to become defence minister this year. Within six months, he disappeared under the cloud of a ...

In other words, when China senses a problem abroad, it’s now more likely to use the military to solve it. This approach, say Pentagon officials and outside analysts, has been in the works for ...