China’s latest round of military drills around Taiwan has escalated regional tensions, spilling over into civilian life through major air travel disruptions and heightened security alerts. Helicopters on an amphibious assault ship take part in military drills in waters southeast of Taiwan, in this screenshot from a video released by the Eastern Theatre Command of…
The United States has criticised China for aiming radars at Japanese military aircraft during a training exercise, as tensions between the Asian countries continue to simmer. Both Tokyo and Beijing have given differing accounts of the incident which took place last week near Japan’s Okinawa islands. Remarks by Japan’s Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, about how…
China, Russia and Mongolia held their joint border defense exercise on Monday and Tuesday, staging drills in a frontier area where the three countries meet. The exercise, code-named “Border Defense Cooperation 2025,” focused on strengthening coordination against terrorist and sabotage activities in border regions, the People’s Liberation Army Daily reported Wednesday, News.Az reports, citing Chinese…
SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea leader Kim Jong Un said his country needed to rapidly expand its nuclear armament and called U.S.-South Korea military exercises an “obvious expression of their will to provoke war,” state media KCNA reported on Tuesday. South Korea and its ally the United States kicked off joint military drills this week, including…