Japanese Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has accused Chinese military aircraft of directing their fire-control radar at Japanese fighter jets.
Japan’s Defence Ministry said China’s military aircraft J-15 intermittently targeted its radar at Japanese F-15 fighter jets on two occasions last evening over international waters near the island of Okinawa.
Koizumi said...
Taiwan has announced that it will block access to the popular app Xiaohongshu – known in English as RedNote – for one year after concluding it poses serious cybersecurity risks and had become a hub for fraud.
RedNote is an Instagram-style app used by more than three million people in Taiwan. Users were warned to...
The Australian Defense Force is monitoring a four-ship People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) task group operating in the Philippine Sea, officials said Wednesday.
“We are aware the task group is composed of four ships, a Yushen landing helicopter dock assault, a Renhai-class cruiser, a Jiangkai-class frigate and Fuchi-class replenishment vessel,...
China’s crackdown on borrowing by local governments is forcing state-run entities in even some of the wealthiest provinces to tap costly credit from non-bank lenders, a stopgap that’s building up risks in an opaque corner of the financial system.
The borrowing marks a return of China’s shadow banking market, which...
Revenues at China’s giant military firms fell last year as corruption purges slowed arms contracts and procurement, according to a study released on Monday by a leading conflict think tank.
The Chinese declines contrast with strong revenue growth globally for big arms and military-services companies, fueled by wars in Ukraine...
China’s economic concerns deepened in November as official data confirmed that the country’s manufacturing sector contracted for the eighth straight month, even as India reported a sharp 8.2 per cent GDP expansion in the second quarter.
According to official data released on Sunday, China’s manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) edged...
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te has announced plans to propose a supplementary defence budget of 40 billion US dollars to counter Chinese military expansion. In an op-ed in the Washington Post, Mr. Lai said Taiwan is committed to maintaining peace in the Indo-Pacific region despite frequent Chinese military incursions into...
In one of the largest crackdowns on underground Christian groups in recent years, Chinese authorities have formally arrested 18 leaders of the Beijing Zion Church, according to Christian rights organisation ChinaAid. The group had been detained since early October as part of a sweeping nationwide operation targeting unregistered churches,...
Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence said that 29 Chinese military aircraft and seven naval vessels were detected operating around the vicinity of Taiwan early today. Seventeen of those crossed the median line and entered Taiwan’s northern, central and southwestern Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). The ministry said its forces...
