Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. What does SpaceX’s Starship test success mean for the US-China moon race? The first successful flight for Starship – the biggest and heaviest rocket ever built – has revived…
China’s military has warned that America’s new containerised missile and rocket launch system could “seriously undermine regional strategic stability”. A commentary in PLA Daily on Thursday noted that the launcher – hidden inside a shipping container – had appeared in recent footage from the US Army’s Fort Bragg base in North Carolina. The People’s Liberation…
President Joe Biden is putting together a fresh military aid package for Ukraine, according to a new report, as the outgoing administration hurries to ferry more provisions to Kyiv ahead of President-elect Donald Trump striding back into the White House. The Biden administration is preparing a new tranche of aid worth $725 million, Reuters reported…
The United States plans to deploy the US Marine Littoral Regiment equipped with a Himars rocket launcher system along the Nansei Islands close to Taiwan, Japanese news agency Kyodo reported on Monday. The deployment in the archipelago also known as the Ryukus will be part of a US-Japan operation plan to address a Taiwan contingency,…