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Summary and Key Points: China’s submarine force is expanding and modernizing, shifting from older designs toward domestically built boats across SSBN, SSN, diesel-electric, and...
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Summary and Key Points: China’s submarine force is expanding and modernizing, shifting from older designs toward domestically built boats across SSBN, SSN, diesel-electric, and...
Summary and Key Points: The Pentagon’s 2025 assessment suggests China could field as many as nine aircraft carriers by 2035, signaling Beijing’s ambition to...
China’s pressure campaign around Taiwan is increasingly centered on grey-zone operations and blockade rehearsals, raising the prospect of a quarantine designed to strangle imports...
Summary and Key Points: On January 24, Littoral Combat Ship USS Cincinnati (LCS-20) made a port call at Ream Naval Base, the first U.S....
Summary and Key Points: China’s expanding attack-submarine fleet is no longer just a numbers story; it is about capability, persistence, and how Beijing might...
Key Points and Summary – The Pentagon’s latest China Military Power assessment argues Beijing is modernizing fastest in the air and at sea—while using...
Key Points and Summary – China’s navy is now larger than the U.S. Navy on paper, but numbers hide a critical imbalance. -While Beijing...
Key Takeaways – Japan’s new Taigei-class submarines mark a major leap from the Sōryū-class and signal how serious Tokyo is about undersea warfare in...
One of many vivid Chinese aphorisms is “chóng dǎo fù zhé,” which describes a cart following in the same tracks as an overturned cart...
Those 4 Words: Bigger than U.S. Navy Beijing’s military modernization program, most specifically the modernization of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), has become the top...