China Coast Guard ship 2503, the Zhujiajian, has become a familiar presence in the waters east of Taiwan. Lu Wen-hao, a researcher at the Chinese Society for Strategic Studies, arg......
When Chinese military aircraft and warships swarmed the waters around Taiwan in mid September, much of the coverage in Taiwan framed the surge as Beijing's answer to the island's o......
A decade of public data shows China's amphibious forces becoming a more tightly linked system, but open sources cannot confirm wartime readiness, argues Lu Wen-hao of the Chinese Society for Strategic Studies.
Since the People's Liberation Army's encirclement drills around Taiwan in August 2022, I have tracked defense ministry disclosures and other open sources closely enough to notice a......
On July 24, Taiwan's National Security Council Secretary-General Joseph Wu publicly warned that China's People's Liberation Army had conducted simultaneous live-fire exercises acro......
At 12:01 p.m. on July 6, China's state broadcaster CCTV announced — with unusual speed for a PLA operation — that the navy had test-fired a submarine-launched intercontinental ball......
At 12:01 p.m. on July 6, a People's Liberation Army Navy nuclear-powered submarine fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile carrying a simulated warhead into the South Pacific ......
On June 27, Chinese and Russian air forces carried out their 11th Joint Air Strategic Patrol, sending more than 15 aircraft across the Sea of Japan, the East China Sea and the west......
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense reported on the morning of June 10 that six People's Liberation Army (PLA) vessels and ten Chinese government ships remained active in waters ......
PLA Military Activity Around Taiwan: Patterns Behind the ExercisesTaiwan's Ministry of National Defense reported at 9:27 a.m. on May 4 that only two People's Liberation Army (PLA) ......
For twelve consecutive days beginning February 27, People's Liberation Army aircraft recorded no sorties over the Taiwan Strait's western approaches — an absence that prompted a wa......
China's newest amphibious assault ship has emerged from a Shanghai shipyard displaying a stealth drone model on its flight deck, a development military analysts say signals a sig......
Between January 27 and January 30, 2026, Shanghai's maritime authorities issued three consecutive navigation notices involving so-called “super-large vessels” and a “large specia......
