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The drills conducted by the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) in the Taiwan Straits are aimed at safeguarding national sovereignty and responding to interference by external forces and provocations by "Taiwan independence" forces.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's chief security adviser Nikolai Patrushev has accused the United States of experimenting with biological weapons in regions near the borders of China and Russia, according to Newsweek.
When asked if the next military talks between top-level officials from China and India will be delayed, a Chinese official on Thursday refuted the remarks, saying that the two sides are still "in talks" for the meet-up.
More than a dozen new explosive ordnance disposal technologies involving lasers, drone detection, detonation robots, water guns, X-ray units, and night vision debuted during a seven-day training session.
PLA Eastern Theater Command said on Wednesday it resolutely opposes the USS John S. McCain guided-missile destroyer sailing through the Taiwan Straits and said it has tracked and monitored the warship's movements.
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy has organized the task group of Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning to conduct exercises near the island of Taiwan, said Gao Xiucheng, a PLA Navy spokesperson.
During a recent video meeting under their liaison mechanism, Chinese and Japanese defense departments recognized the mechanism's positive role in reducing misunderstandings and miscalculations, and safeguarding maritime and aerial security.
President of North Macedonia Stevo Pendarovski and Prime Minister Zoran Zaev met with visiting Chinese State Councilor and Minister of National Defense Wei Fenghe, respectively, in Skopje on Tuesday.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has launched two "newly-developed" tactical guided missiles, the official Korean Central News Agency reported Friday.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Friday it had test-fired new tactical guided missiles a day earlier, confirming the launch of ballistic missiles for the first time in about a year.
The PLA Army will head abroad and participate a snowfield combat and march competition from April 4 to 20 at the invitation of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, a Chinese military spokesperson announced Thursday.
The Type 055 guided-missile destroyer Lhasa has been commissioned to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy, a spokesperson said Thursday at a press conference.
A Chinese military spokesperson on Thursday urged certain members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to stop stirring up troubles in the South China Sea.
China has no wish to challenge or threaten anyone, but it also does not fear challenges or threats from others, Senior Colonel Ren Guoqiang, spokesman of the Ministry of National Defense, said in a news briefing on Thursday.
The Chinese military is urging countries outside of the South China Sea to stop making trouble in the region, Senior Colonel Ren Guoqiang, spokesman of the Ministry of National Defense, said in a news briefing on Thursday.
A United Nations envoy on Wednesday hailed the endorsement of a national government in Libya after years of "paralysis and internal divisions," and urged the Security Council to provide fresh support by deploying UN ceasefire monitors.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired at least one unidentified projectile into the East Sea, Yonhap news agency reported early Thursday Seoul Time, citing South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Four more U.S. soldiers in South Korea tested positive for COVID-19, the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) said on Monday.
"Valiantly and spiritedly, we cross the Yalu River," the elderly man repeatedly sang when he was recently visited by reporters in his village home in Chongqing.
The United States remains the world's largest arms exporter, increasing its global share of arms exports from 32 percent to 37 percent between 2011-2015 and 2016-2020, said a Swedish-based research institute on Monday.
The Central Military Commission has released a set of revised regulations regarding the work of the Communist Party of China disciplinary inspection commissions in the armed forces, which will take effect on April 1.
Four people were killed and two others were injured in Saturday's crash of an An-26 military transport aircraft at the airport in south Kazakhstan's Almaty city, said authorities.
The People's Liberation Army's Eastern Theater Command mobilized its forces to monitor the USS John Finn'spassage through the Taiwan Straits on Wednesday, the command's spokesman said on Thursday.
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theater Command said Thursday it tracked and monitored the movements of the USS John Finn guided-missile destroyer as it sailed through the Taiwan Straits on Wednesday.
The People's Liberation Army Navy has recently commissioned its second Type 055 guided-missile destroyer and named it Lhasa, after the capital of the Tibet autonomous region.
President Xi Jinping Tuesday stressed achieving a good start in strengthening national defense and the armed forces during the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) period.
A moderate increase in the defense budget will better enable the military to safeguard the security of the country and the entire world, according to a Defense Ministry spokesman.
The combined forces of South Korea and the United States kicked off their joint annual military exercises in a scaled-back manner amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, the country's top missile maker, has brought a new high-mobility air-defense missile system to the international market.
China's defense budget growth for 2021 is steady and appropriate after last year's positive economic growth when China broke free from the burden of the COVID-19 outbreak, a Chinese military spokesperson said on Sunday.
