At least three villages have been built in the mountainous region separating the two countries, with some doubling in size.

Wang Xiaojun, who will be removed from country’s top advisory body, led development of Long March 7 rockets used to resupply Tiangong space station and launch satellites

Military bloggers in China claim the Chinese 4.5-generation aircraft outperformed its European-made rival in the Zilzal-II exercise.

Chinese foreign ministry says policy is short-sighted and unwise, and that it politicises and weaponises technological cooperation.

After a hiatus on Saturday, PLA aircraft were back in action on Monday but not at noticeably higher levels than usual.

During the Defence Policy Coordination Talks in Washington, Chinese officials urge US to stop arming self-ruled island.

The island’s presidential election on Saturday emphasises the importance of its strategic location, world-leading chip industry and other geopolitical factors.

Floating objects seen crossing Taiwan Strait median line since December, with increased activity since New Year’s Day, according to Taiwanese defence ministry, which says drones and balloons are part of Beijing’s ‘cognitive warfare’.

Vessel appears in state broadcaster’s news item on military’s response to president’s New Year’s call for national rejuvenation.

The Hsiung Sheng cruise missile is a key retaliatory component in Taiwan’s arsenal, intended to reach deep into the mainland.

Discussions will not resolve ‘hardcore’ geopolitical issues like Taiwan and the South China Sea but could help avoid crisis, experts say

Disinformation, cyberattacks being used by China to ‘erode’ technological edge of Nato and other nations, US permanent envoy Julianne Smith says after leading trip to Japan and South Korea.

Manila is trying to give its maritime confrontations with China maximum publicity in the hope of gaining more international support.

Washington says it has frozen the assets of a former prefectural police chief and a United Front Work Department cadre, actions Beijing says the action amounts to gross interference in China’s internal affairs.

The vessels pictured at the Ream naval base are the first foreign warships known to have used a new facility built with the help of China.

China’s Southern Theatre Command says American combat ship entered waters near the Second Thomas Shoal, violating ‘China’s sovereignty and security’.

US-China consensus on regulating the military use of AI mentions no specifics, amid challenge posed by the lack of a common definition for lethal autonomous weapon systems.

PLA’s most advanced carrier is shown metres from usual berthing place in satellite images, and it appears to launch object in unverified video.

Kishida says he called for ‘objective judgment’ on Japanese seafood when he discussed Fukushima waste water row with Xi last week, while Xi urges Japan to address ‘legitimate concerns’.

Run-ins in resource-rich waters have largely marred relations between rival claimants Beijing and Manila, prompting US to renew defence pledge.

Observers say renewed communication channels between PLA and US military cannot fix fundamental disagreements on issues such as military conduct in South China Sea.

The Chinese leader indicated Beijing is not preparing for an invasion of the island, a US official said after the meeting in California.

On the sidelines of the Family Business Summit, Cui says risk of war will rise greatly if the one-China principle is not respected.

Shandong and escort vessels spotted off northern Taiwan and ‘we have deployed appropriate forces to respond’, island’s defence ministry says, without offering details.

Most pressing threat to values ‘comes from authoritarian regimes’, President Tsai Ing-wen tells Taipei Security Dialogue, highlights ‘authoritarian actors’ cognitive warfare, in the form of mis- and/or disinformation’, in apparent criticism of Beijing.

China is Australia’s No 1 trade partner but ties have been strained over issues including the source of Covid-19, human rights and the South China Sea.

Chinese foreign ministry confirms that arms control chief Sun Xiaobo will lead Beijing’s delegation during talks with US State Department officials.

Former Pentagon official Chad Sbragia suggests that Beijing should recognise other countries such as Japan have their own legitimate security concerns.

US defence secretary could have met top PLA brass – and maybe even President Xi Jinping – while resuming long-stalled senior military dialogues at security conference in Beijing, says Lieutenant General He Lei.

At Beijing Xiangshan Forum, CMC vice-chairman Zhang Youxia also takes a thinly veiled swipe at the US, saying a ‘certain country’ is interfering in the region and internal affairs of other nations.