The following is the 2016 Report to Congress of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission that was released this month. Read More
Tag Archives: People’s Liberation Army
Video: Chinese Military Rap Song Recruitment Ad
The following is a People’s Liberation Army recruitment advertisement released late last month by Chinese authorities. Read More
Document: Report to Congress on the Chinese Military
The following is the March 24, 2016 Congressional Research Service report, The Chinese Military: Overview and Issues for Congress. Read More
China Defends Deployment of Anti-Ship Missiles to South China Sea Island
A People’s Liberation Army Y-62 missile launch on Woody Island that circulated on the Chinese language Internet last week via aviation site Alert5.
Beijing is defending the deployment of anti-ship cruise missiles to Woody Island in the South China Sea, according to a Wednesday statement from the Chinese foreign ministry. Read More
Document: Japanese Analysis of Chinese Strategic, Military Trends
The following is the 2016 Japanese analysis of strategic and military trends in China from the National Institute of Defense Studies. Read More
Document: 2015 U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission Report
The following is the recently released 2015 report from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission to Congress. Read More
Opinion: What if They Held a Salvo Competition and Nobody Came?
Left to right, the guided missile cruiser USS Vicksburg (CG 69), and the guided missile destroyers USS Roosevelt (DDG 80), USS Carney (DDG 64) and USS The Sullivans (DDG 68) launch a coordinated volley of missiles in 2003. US Navy Photo
After Vietnam, the Department of Defense turned its attention back to the Soviet threat in Europe. Faced with an opposing force that was numerically superior, land-power-focused, and strategically positioned to overrun Western Europe, the United States initially turned to nuclear weapons to offset a battlefield disadvantage. Read More
Document: China’s Military Strategy
A naval honor guard at the in 2012 on board the Liaoning. Xinhua News Agency Photo
The following is the first public Chinese Military Strategy white paper outlining a new policy of “active defense,” released by the Chinese Ministry of National Defense on May 26, 2015. Read More
Pentagon: China Developing New Anti-Satellite Weapons, Jammers
Shenzhou-9 spacecraft in 2012.
China is designing weapons to counter advanced Western satellite technology using directed energy weapons and jammers and may have already tested some, according to a Friday Chinese military assessment to Congress. Read More
Japan’s Emerging Defense Export Industry
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard & Machinery Works of Kobe Harbor in Kobe, Hyogo prefecture, Japan in 2006. via Wikipedia
The recent relaxation of Tokyo’s ban on arms exports has introduced Japan as a budding player in the international arms market. The government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has given the go-ahead for Japanese firms to compete internationally for arms contracts. Read More
