China's military weapons

The United States must prepare for a possible military conflict with China, including by developing new weapons and strengthening ties with allies, a senior Trump administration official said on Thursday. In remarks that underscored growing competition between the US government and an increasingly powerful Chinese military, Chad Sbragia, deputy assistant secretary of defense for China, said the Pentagon needs to “build and deploy a more lethal, resilient joint force.”  That includes more hypersonic weapons, artificial intelligence, robots and laser weapons, Sbragia told the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which was set up by Congress in 2000 to evaluate the defense implicat

China’s military parade on October 1 – one of the largest in human history – to observe the 70th anniversary of the communist republic’s founding was largely aimed at a domestic audience. But the bigger impact of the massive display of Chinese military hardware was on the world stage, particularly on its neighbors and the US-led West, whether it was intended or not. Beijing proclaimed that the parade was showing a “peace-loving and responsible China.” Nevertheless, the widely asked question is what was the motivation behind such a massive show of Chinese military might – which included more than 160 aircraft and 580 active weapon systems, among them new fighter jets, bombers and tanks. The

China staged a huge naval parade on Tuesday to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese navy.  The leadership under Xi Jinping has embarked on a major military modernization campaign to boost the combat capability of Chinese troops. And the country's expanding naval power has unnerved neighboring governments that are engaged in territorial disputes with Beijing.  The parade, held in thick fog in the eastern port of Qingdao, featured new warships, nuclear submarines and the country’s first aircraft carrier.  Check out the gallery, above, to see the latest show of China’s power at sea. 

The Chinese military just released a video to hype up its upcoming air show in Changchun, northeast China. The video will be screening it to new cadets, while some of the jets featured perform stunts overhead. The footage showcases China’s newest stealth fighter, the J-20, a jet which is meant to compete against the United States’ F-22 Raptor stealth warplane.

If you’ve ever looked up to the sky and marveled at the graceful sweep of bird gliding above, be warned: it could be a Chinese drone monitoring your every move. The idea might seem far-fetched, but robotic birds are very much a reality, and China has been using them to surveil people across the country. Sources told the South China Morning Post that more than 30 military and government agencies have deployed the birdlike drones and related devices in at least five provinces in recent years. The “spy bird” program, code-named “Dove”, is being led by Song Bifeng, a professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xian, capital of northwestern China’s Shaanxi province. Yang Wenqing, an as

China is aggressively developing its next generation of nuclear weapons, conducting an average of five tests a month to simulate nuclear blasts, according to a major Chinese weapons research institute.