China is entitled to strengthen its defenses on islands in the disputed South China Sea but those measures aren't directed at any specific countries, a defense ministry spokesman said Tuesday, amid the latest surge in tensions in the crucial waterway.Harika...
In June, at the Conference Marking the 70th Anniversary of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, Xi said that China will work with interested parties to set up a tripartite center of excellence for the implementation of the GDI, so as to facilitate growth in Global South countries. "Chi...
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In the past, Duterte has repeatedly said he will raise the sea dispute at the proper time and avoided the issue when Manila hosted two regional meetings this year. The United States has criticized China's construction of islands and its build-up of military facilities in the ...
Measures under the partnership include providing 1 billion yuan in military aid, training 6,000 military personnel and 1,000 law enforcement officers, and inviting 500 young officers to China. On the Ukraine crisis, China, with an objective and impartial stance, has actively promoted dialogue and...
Although it was the largest and most costly war in which the British engaged between theNapoleonic WarsandWorld War I(spending more than £200 million), it was fought between wholly unequalprotagonists. The total British military strength inSouthern Africareached nearly 500,000 men, whereas the ...
Andries Pretorius(born Nov. 27, 1798, nearGraaff-Reinet, Cape Colony [now in South Africa]—died July 23, 1853, Magaliesberg, Transvaal [now in South Africa]) was aBoerleader in theGreat Trekfrom British-dominatedCape Colony, the dominantmilitaryand political figure inNataland later in the...
In order to strengthen military power and shake off the post-war order, the Abe administration usually uses the so-called “China threat” as an excuse to deceive the Japanese public and other parts of the world. After Japan adopted its new security laws that lifted a decades-old ban on ...
President Nguyen Van Thieu was trying to win a war against Communism while simultaneously rescuing a smashed economy over-stretched by military spending and rapidly declining American aid. On 20 July 1973, a month after the US Congress had voted to ban all US combat activities in Indochina, ...