President Xi Jinping redrew the military command system by forming a joint operational command, junking the area military commands.

CMC, the overall high command of the PLA, is directly headed by President Xi Jinping, who is also the head of the ruling Communist Party.

In 2010, China had also resorted to issuing "stapled visas" to residents of Jammu and Kashmir on the same grounds of it being "disputed" wh...

Officials said the discussions during the visit are likely to centre on maintaining tranquillity on the Line of Actual Control (LAC), speci...

China on Thursday announced a major overhaul of its military -- which at 2.3 million troops is double the size of the Indian armed forces.

The government has notified new "statutory rules" so that an officer from any one service can now “exercise direct command” over personnel ...

This is the fist time such exercises were held after the PLA underwent massive restructuring initiated by President Xi Jinping, who is also...

The four previous drills in the series were organised by the PLA area commands of Chengdu, Nanjing and Guangzhou, and the Chinese navy.

Xi Jinping has promoted 10 senior military and armed police officers to general, the highest rank for officers in active service, in the mi...

The visit went on hold five years ago after Beijing insisted on issuing stapled visa to the officer because J&K came under his command.

Both Indian and Chinese armies for long have been patrolling aggressively along the un-delineated 4,057-km long LAC.

China is distributing millions of controversial updated maps to its military in the first upgrade in 30 years, reportedly reinforcing its c...

On Tuesday, the focus was on making the border defence cooperation agreement, inked during PM's visit to Beijing last October, fully operat...

The Indian Army has extended the invitation for DGMO-level talks to China's People's Liberation Army (PLA), government officials said.

China has effected a "large-scale shift" in the leadership of its 2.3 million-strong People's Liberation Army (PLA), the world's largest st...

Aiming to avoid any misunderstanding on their borders, India & China are planning to set up hotlines b/w army commanders in-charge of their...

In a first, China's People's Liberation Army is going to use trains that move at speeds of up to 350km per hour to move thousands of troops...