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May 07, 2013
BEIJING--China's military on May 7 denied renewed U.S. accusations of sponsoring cyber-attacks and said the sides should cooperate against the global threat of computer crime.
May 07, 2013
The Obama administration's strategic shift to Asia is a smart policy, but its China blind spot could be its undoing, writes defense and security journalist Trefor Moss in The...
May 02, 2013
NEW DELHI--The platoon of Chinese soldiers slipped across the boundary into India in the middle of the night, according to Indian officials. They were ferried across the...
April 24, 2013
SHANGHAI--China will build a second, larger aircraft carrier capable of carrying more fighter jets, the official Xinhua news service reported late on April 23, quoting a senior ...
April 12, 2013
BEIJING--Chinese President Xi Jinping has visited a key naval base in an island province in the disputed South China Sea in his latest move advertising his close ties to the...
March 24, 2013
SHANGHAI--Faculty members at a top Chinese university have collaborated for years on technical research papers with a People's Liberation Army (PLA) unit accused of being at...
March 23, 2013
WASHINGTON--China's People's Liberation Army has accepted an invitation to participate for the first time in a major U.S.-hosted naval drill, but legal restrictions will limit...
March 21, 2013
CANBERRA/HONG KONG--The Pentagon's F-35 warplane is giving U.S. allies in Asia a headache as they look to replace ageing jets with a cutting edge aircraft now likely to be at...
March 07, 2013
HONG KONG--China's naval and paramilitary ships are churning up the ocean around islands it disputes with Tokyo in what experts say is a strategy to overwhelm the numerically...
March 06, 2013
BEIJING--Even in the infancy of his reign, Chinese leader Xi Jinping betrayed concerns that a rift between the military and the Communist Party could compromise his government.
March 06, 2013
BEIJING--China unveiled another double-digit rise in military expenditure on March 5, but for a third year in a row the defense budget will be exceeded by spending on domestic...
March 05, 2013
BEIJING--China's government promised its people on March 5 deficit-fueled spending to fight deep-seated corruption, improve the despoiled environment and address other...
March 04, 2013
BEIJING--Newly installed Chinese leader Xi Jinping faces a key test of his campaign to end corruption and reduce extravagance when outlays for the politically influential...
February 28, 2013
BEIJING--Two major Chinese military websites, including that of the Defense Ministry, were subject to about 144,000 hacking attacks a month last year, almost two-thirds of...
February 26, 2013
BEIJING--China has launched the first ship in a new class of stealth missile frigates, state media reported on Feb. 26, amid ongoing tensions with neighboring countries over...
February 26, 2013
HONG KONG--China is expanding its long-neglected fleet of supply ships and heavy-lift aircraft, bolstering its military prowess in support of missions to enforce claims over...
February 26, 2013
BEIJING--Beijing hotly denies accusations of official involvement in massive cyber-attacks against foreign targets, insinuating such activity is the work of rogues. But at...
February 20, 2013
BEIJING--For state-backed cyber spies such as a Chinese military's Unit 61398 implicated by a U.S. security firm in a computer crime wave, hacking foreign companies can produce ...
February 20, 2013
WASHINGTON--As public evidence mounts that the Chinese military is responsible for stealing massive amounts of U.S. government data and corporate trade secrets, the Obama...
February 20, 2013
BEIJING--Accusations by a U.S. computer security company that a secretive Chinese military unit is likely behind a series of hacking attacks are scientifically flawed and hence ...