China boosts military spending with eyes on US, TaiwanChina military spending: Beijing plans to spend 1.9096 trillion yuan ($276.8 billion) on defence, according to a report published at the op...
05 Mar, 2026, 10.11 AM IST
China's expanding nuclear arsenal raises fears of 'Nuclear Blackmail' over Taiwan conflictConcerns are mounting over China's expanding nuclear weapons stockpile, with analysts indicating that Beijing may resort to nuclear posturi...
15 Oct, 2025, 05.24 PM IST
China’s Ukraine lesson: What Xi is learning from Putin’s warChina and its People's Liberation Army (PLA) is watching more closely than most, as its friend Russia got itself bogged down in static warf...
08 Oct, 2025, 07.23 AM IST
Taiwan simulates response to large scale disasters, Chinese threatsTaiwan President Lai Ching-te led civil defence drills to enhance societal resilience against large-scale disasters, under the newly formed...
27 Mar, 2025, 05.16 PM IST
China-Taiwan 2027 Deadline: How China could crush Taiwan without firing a shotChina’s military modernisation is accelerating, with President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption purge reshaping the People’s Liberation Army (P...
24 Mar, 2025, 07.33 PM IST
DeepSeek's new AI chatbot and ChatGPT answer sensitive questions about China differentlyDeepSeek's AI assistant became the No. 1 downloaded free app on Apple's iPhone store on Tuesday afternoon and its launch made Wall Street t...
28 Jan, 2025, 04.24 PM IST
US nuclear expansion unlikely to deter China: StudyA war game simulated a nuclear conflict over Taiwan. The simulation revealed that boosting US nuclear weapons may not stop China from using...
22 Dec, 2024, 07.23 AM IST
Deterrence is key to dissuading a Chinese invasion of TaiwanChina conducted its largest military drills around Taiwan since 1996, protesting President Lai's US transit. The PLA Navy simulated blockad...
16 Dec, 2024, 09.28 AM IST
Typhoon Krathon shuts Taiwan’s $2.5 trillion stock marketTaiwan will close its stock market on Wednesday due to Super Typhoon Krathon. Schools and offices are also closed in many parts of Taiwan. ...
01 Oct, 2024, 06.16 PM IST
Taiwan's annual war games cut back by incoming Typhoon GaemiTaiwan cancelled some drills in its annual war games as Typhoon Gaemi barrelled towards the island on Tuesday, expected to bring heavy rain...
23 Jul, 2024, 04.47 PM IST
Trillion-dollar chip giant: Five things to know about TSMCTaiwanese semiconductor titan TSMC briefly joined a rarefied club of companies valued at more than $1 trillion on Monday. It works closely ...
09 Jul, 2024, 08.10 AM IST
Could China invade Taiwan?One key question is how close the People's Liberation Army is to mastering the capabilities needed to dispatch tens of thousands of troops ...
03 Aug, 2022, 11.50 AM IST
China sends more jets; Taiwan says it will fight to the end if there's warTaiwan's Defence Ministry said 15 Chinese aircraft including 12 fighters entered its air defence identification zone, with an anti-submarin...
07 Apr, 2021, 05.55 PM IST
Taiwan says will fight to the end if China attacksChinese-claimed Taiwan has complained of repeated military activities by Beijing in recent months, with China's air force making almost dai...
07 Apr, 2021, 11.00 AM IST
Taiwan to kick off war games with computer simulated invasion by ChinaComputer simulations of a Chinese attack on Taiwan will be conducted between April 23 to 30, and will form the first phase of Taiwan's larg...
07 Apr, 2021, 10.09 AM IST
Chinese actions on India border, in SCS and Hong Kong 'provocative, destabilising': Rich VermaIndian and Chinese armies have been locked in a bitter standoff at multiple locations in eastern Ladakh for over eight weeks since May 5. T...
13 Jul, 2020, 11.22 AM IST
The Chinese challenge is here to stay. Here are some steps India can quickly take to counter itThe Chinese are not going anywhere. After the casualties suffered by both sides on the night of June 15 they have only come in larger numbe...
30 Jun, 2020, 11.05 AM IST