The United States on Friday accused China of carrying out a secret nuclear test in 2020 as the Trump administration calls for ...
The Kyiv Independent’s Alisa Yurchenko investigates why China is buying Russian weapons, what Moscow gains from the deal, and what the deepening Russia–China military cooperation could mean for future ...
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China’s stunning military purge

Analysts are calling it China’s biggest military purge in roughly half a century: President Xi Jinping has placed his second-in-command, China’s top general, under investigation. Shanshan Mei, who ...
China’s military-linked labs are building predator-inspired drone swarms and quadrupedal robot teams designed to keep operating even when communications are jammed.
Data is the fuel of agentic systems, but quality matters more than volume. China benefits from a vast collection of civil data. However, military AI requires distinct operational data such as ...
New internal ethics guidelines won’t be enough to stamp out the deeply embedded corruption within China’s People’s Liberation Army. On December 19, 2025, when the Chinese Central Military Commission’s ...
China’s official military newspaper, PLA Daily, has issued an unusually blunt warning about corruption inside the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), using the term “big rats” to describe officials ...
Graduates of China's "Seven Sons" defense universities found perches for themselves at U.S. colleges and research labs, and many have access to valuable intellectual property.
China claims its new microwave weapon is more powerful than its US equivalent and capable of shooting down drone swarms from 3km away. The announcement comes at a time of reputational damage for ...
American colleges have admitted Chinese scientists who worked at blacklisted Chinese tech firms that serve the CCP's military and intelligence apparatus, often co-funded by U.S. taxpayers.
Scientists are said to have built an insanely high-powered microwave (HPM) weapon called the TPG1000Cs. It can reportedly ...
China is turning to the wild to sharpen its next generation of battlefield machines, training artificial intelligence to stalk, surround, and strike in ways that echo hawks circling prey and coyotes ...