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As is well-known to anyone paying serious attention to world affairs, China’s and Russia’s respective totalitarian tyrants, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, have become awfully buddy-buddy as...
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As is well-known to anyone paying serious attention to world affairs, China’s and Russia’s respective totalitarian tyrants, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, have become awfully buddy-buddy as...
China’s newest aircraft carrier is being built at the Jiangnan Shipyard. That same facility is also constructing commercial ships for U.S. allies. The shipyard...
For the past few years, China has been accelerating the professionalization and modernization of its military forces, adding new aircraft and ships at an...
At this week’s Airshow China 2021, which is taking place in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, officials at a Chinese state-owned aviation firm revealed that progress...
Type 003 carrier ? pic.twitter.com/13Zyt9zPsk — 彩云香江 (@louischeung_hk) August 25, 2021 This week new photos of China’s new Type 003 aircraft carrier circulated online,...
What if China never bought it? In 1998, a Chinese businessman bought the incomplete hulk of a Soviet aircraft carrier. Fourteen years later that...
The ability to project airpower across oceanic expanses has long appealed to island nations—indeed, the first aircraft carriers were deployed by the United Kingdom...
China was proud to launch its first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, in 2012. This vessel was a refit of an incomplete Soviet Kuznetsov-class cruiser carrier. However, the...
The number “35” isn’t unique as multiple military aircraft use that particular model number. In addition to the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, there...
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) recently began building a mock landing strip at Lingshui, on Hainan Island. The purpose of the landing...