The U.S. has warned Beijing there will be consequences for its installation of missiles in the South China Sea on contested islands. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders told media that: “We’re well aware of China’s militarization of the South China Sea.” Huckabee Sanders said that the U.S. has raised their concerns with the Chinese ...
In past negotiations aimed at reducing the arsenals of the world’s nuclear superpowers, chiefly the U.S. and Russia, a major sticking point has been the verification process: How do you prove that real bombs and nuclear devices — not just replicas — have been destroyed, without revealing closely held secrets about the design of those ...
Beijing announced on March 5 that it is raising its armed forces defense budget by 8.1 percent, a figure doubted by outside analysts who say the amount for is much higher than Beijing’s official military budget announcement. The defense budget for 2018 officially is 1.11 trillion yuan ($175 billion), making China the world’s second biggest ...
This is the story of how pigs defeated elephants in battles. We know that animals such as horses, elephants, cats, dogs, monkeys, and even rhinos have been used in ancient and modern warfare. But who would have thought that pigs (war pigs) would have been used as a weapon of war in ancient times? During ...
Admiral Harry Harris, one of America’s top military figures, has been made the next U.S. ambassador to Australia at a time of growing concern over China’s sway in the Asia-Pacific region. The White House announced on February 9 that Admiral Harry Harris — currently the 24th commander of U.S. Pacific Command — would be taking ...
According to historical records, Mao Zedong and his commander of the 3rd Field Army, General Su Yu, planned a large-scale military operation to invade Taiwan by the year’s end in 1950. Mao’s plan to invade Taiwan needed not only ships, planes, and troops, but also a network of agents embedded within Taiwanese society. The agents’ ...
Born in 1874 in Penglai, Shandong Province (northeast China), Wu Peifu began life as a scholar before embarking upon a career as a professional soldier in his twenties. How did he rise from being the son of a tradesman, leading a simple life, to become one of China’s strongest warlords, heralded by Time magazine as ...
October 24, 1871, is the date of Los Angeles’s mass lynching, one of its greatest unsolved murders. During a cool fall night, a violent lynch mob of around 500 people entered Chinatown to attack, rob, and murder at least 18 Chinese men and boys. The events of that night made it the largest mass lynching in American history. ...
The presence of a Chinese Navy spy ship monitoring large U.S.-Australia war games on the Queensland coast has been described as provocative by senior Australian military officials. The Chinese Navy ship — an Auxiliary General Intelligence vessel (AGI) of the Type 815 Dongdiao-class — eavesdropped from international waters on this month’s Talisman Sabre war games ...
This year is the 28th anniversary of the June 4th Tiananmen Massacre. The Hong Kong Alliance continued to hold its annual candlelight vigil rally at Victoria Park at Causeway Bay. They invited Lin Yaoqiang, a former member of the student movement, to come forward to give a speech on what he had witnessed on that ...
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