Welcome to the third edition of ‘China military watch’. This month, we take a look at China’s burgeoning missile and space capabilities. Ballistic missiles on Chinese merchant vessels? On 15 September, China successfully launched the …
Covid-19 has made a mockery of the world’s great powers. US President Donald Trump promised to ‘make America great again’, but his administration’s handling of the pandemic has been anything but great. Chinese President Xi …
Military tension in the Taiwan Strait reached a worrying level on the weekend of 19–20 September. For several days prior, People’s Liberation Army Air Force fighters and bombers had been conducting flights through the strait …
Researchers at ASPI’s International Cyber Policy Centre are documenting and analysing the Chinese government’s repressive policies in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the northwest corner of China. Over the past two years, the team …
In a recent Strategist article on China’s island-building strategy in the Pacific, Steve Raaymakers recycles a number of misapprehensions about a planned Chinese fisheries project on Hao Atoll in French Polynesia. The article suggests that …