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Defense One
China’s outsized latticework of global infrastructure is said to be rooted in a fierce competitiveness learned from 19th-century America.
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The National Interest
What does the Department of Defense really think about China's military?
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DarkReading
Since May 2014, the Chinese government has been amassing a 'Facebook for human intelligence.' Here's what it's doing with the info.
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South China Morning Post
Why China’s ammunition factories are being turned over to robots
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CNAS
Developing strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies.
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Next Big Future
China claims to have developed hypersonic anti missile with 8000+mph speed
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Popular Science
The Chinese navy is taking arsenal ships in a new direction—as giant submersibles. Read on.
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Stratfor
With a new aircraft carrier, Beijing shows off its expanding maritime capabilities.
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The Diplomat
The People’s Liberation Army allegedly plans to increase the size of its amphibious assault troops by 400 percent.
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Rand
A Sino-U.S. war could take various, and unintended, paths. Because intense, reciprocal conventional counterforce attacks could inflict heavy losses and costs on both sides, leaders need options and channels to contain and terminate fighting.
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Scientific American
Between 2008 and 2013, China's solar-electric panel industry dropped world prices by 80 percent
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Stratfor
The Mighty Dragon's strengths and weaknesses are emblematic of the Chinese air force's modernization at large.
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TED
The former prime minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd is also a longtime student of China, with a unique vantage point to watch its power rise in the past few d...
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Pop Science
The H-20 is China's future stealth bomber with a strategic reach. Plans for other bombers, though, are less clear.
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Stratfor
With the naval strength of China on the rise, we take a look at what it all means in the battle for high-seas supremacy between Beijing and Washington.
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Stratfor
As the world's powers find themselves in competition with one another once again, China will work to gain the upper hand through the internet.
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China hails a 'successful' test of a new hypersonic weapon that could slip a nuke past U.S. defenses
Business Insider
China claims to have successfully tested a new "hypersonic strike weapon" that could one day be capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads and evading all existing defense networks, including the missile shields developed by the US.
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Singularity Hub
China’s Navy is now the world’s largest. It has altered the military balance in Asia in ways the U.S. is only beginning to digest.
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National Interest
To what end is Beijing building this force? How many carriers will the PLAN ultimately build? Is China growing a carrier force meant to protect its interests or expand them? We simply don’t know—but we will certainly find out.
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New York Times
A U.S. military flight over the South China Sea brings harsh Chinese challenges in officially international space. Officers say a new era of risk is here.
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Bloomberg
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Stratfor
The naval encounter marks a newly aggressive response by Beijing to Washington's freedom of navigation patrols in the South China Sea.
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Stratfor
Security analyst Scott Stewart takes a look at a case of espionage involving Chinese operative Xu Yanjun, accused of trying to steal jet technology.
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DESIGNER EDGE
China’s Navy investment and missile capabilities are reshaping how the US Navy operates in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Stratfor
Newly revealed Department of Justice documents lay bare the extent of Beijing's efforts to acquire information and technology at any cost. Now, recognizing the scale of the threat, Washington is looking to fight back.
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Interesting Engineering
With Chinese tech giants Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent focused on developing sophisticated AI-driven systems in the coming decade, the rest of the world can only watch while China builds the computer systems that will run our world in the decades to come.
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The National Interest
By itself, a Look Out II-type boat does not boast impressive firepower. But then, robot missile vessels won't operate by themselves.
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National Interest
The study paints a picture of a nation with a focus on goals and what it needs to achieve them. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union bankrupted itself with an obsessive need to match U.S. capabilities such as ballistic missile defense. China won't make that same mistake
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The New York Times
China’s practice of breaking into American computers has become a core grievance of the Trump administration as leaders of the two nations prepare to meet.
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Newsweek
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Big Think
A series of controversial experiments by Russia and China recently came to light, drawing concern from experts over their potential military applications. A newly published paper shows that in June 2018, Russian scientists emitted high-frequency radio waves in order to affect the ionosphere - the io...
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Stratfor
Its armed forces have grown by leaps and bounds in the past 20 years, but China has a lot of work to do if it's ever going to catch up to the U.S.
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Reuters
Many Chinese missiles now rival or outperform those of the United States. This new reality could render American aircraft carriers obsolete in a war with China.
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Reuters
China displayed its naval power off the coast of Shandong province on April 23 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy.
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Reuters
China's navy, which is growing faster than any other major fleet, has now amassed sufficient firepower to control the seas off its coast, forcing the United States and its regional allies to sail warily in these waters, Reuters reports today.
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Foreign Policy
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National Interest
That's concerning for a number of reasons.
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Stratfor
Beijing has proven time and again that it will recruit anyone with access to the information it wants, regardless of ethnicity, location or motivation. Companies who assume otherwise do so at their own peril.
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Stratfor
China has by no means overcome all of the issues limiting its ability to carry out a successful amphibious invasion, such as the seizure of Taiwan, but it has still made great strides.
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Cassandra Capital
If you’re an avid China watcher you probably already know that the military balance of power in Asia has shifted significantly over the last two decades. However, if you’re just now starting to take a closer look at the region given the heightened US-China tensions with the ongoing trade war, then you may not fully grasp the scale of China’s recent military buildup. Based on current trends,
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Stratfor
With a parade of military hardware on the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic, Beijing sends a message to the world highlighting its growing might.
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NBC News
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The Economist
It is developing new bombs, new missiles and new ways of launching them
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The Economist
Amid creeping paranoia, two books try to size up the danger
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Quartz
When it comes to overseas propaganda, China's efforts are far more primitive than Russia's sophisticated operations.
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Yahoo
Too expensive? Seems so.
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Forbes
A single photo from a Shanghai shipyard captures the vast scale of this construction. While the U.S. Navy launches a handful of AEGIS destroyers each year, this photo shows nine newly constructed Chinese warships.
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South China Morning Post
It could be used to take down missiles or hostile aircraft, state tabloid Global Times says, as military’s procurement website invites bids from suppliers.
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Forbes
The remote surveillance platforms may be part of a much larger sensor network, much of which is unseen beneath the waves. China may be going from mere presence, to omnipresence.
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Breaking Defense
"The report does not claim that China’s military is currently 10 feet tall," but "Beijing is working to overcome [its faults]," says Deputy Assistant Secretary for China, Chad Sbragia
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Stratfor
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Business Insider
A database of 2.4 million people, including more than 35,000 Australians, has been leaked from the Shenzhen company Zhenhua Data, which is believed to be used by China's intelligence service, the Ministry of State Security.
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Global Times
China's domestically developed 10,000 ton-class Type 055 guided missile destroyer can counter stealth aircraft and low-Earth orbit satellites, a state-owned media has recently revealed for the first time, leading Chinese experts to say on Sunday that the capabilities will give Chinese forces a key edge over their opponents in modern warfare.
