China’s military modernization is real, its ambitions are genuine, and its willingness to use force cannot be dismissed. But the People’s Liberation Army that Xi Jinping has built is as much a ...

In 2024, U.S. intelligence reported something that sounds like a dark comedy: up to half of China’s ballistic missiles may have been filled with water instead of fuel. The money that should have ...

The Chinese military says it dispatched air, navy and rocket troops to conduct joint live-fire drills around Taiwan to warn against what it calls separatist and “external interference” forces. In this ...

HONG KONG — China’s military on Monday dispatched air, navy and rocket troops to conduct joint military drills around the island of Taiwan, a move Beijing called a “stern warning” against separatist ...