| China Daily Zhang Jianhua, former deputy head of the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for bribery-related crimes by a court in Sichuan province on Wednesday. The Dazhou Intermediate People’s Court sentenced Zhang to eight years inContinue Reading
| China Daily The International Seminar on Counter-Terrorism 2026 opened on Tuesday in Yining, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, drawing about 100 officials and scholars from 24 countries and regional organizations, including the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Russia and the African Union. Under the theme “Addressing New Challenges of Terrorism:Continue Reading
Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Sunday said Ukraine’s attack on an Iranian commercial ship in the Caspian Sea “cannot go unanswered.” In a post on the social media platform X, Araghchi accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of ordering “a blatant UN Charter violation done at Israel’s behestContinue Reading
Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday condemned a Ukrainian attack earlier in the day against an Iranian commercial ship in the Caspian Sea that led to the vessel’s explosion and a sailor’s death. The ministry said in a statement that the attack, carried out by the Ukrainian government, also leftContinue Reading
In a repeat of its brazen tactics, the latest maritime confrontation near China’s Ren’ai Jiao once again exposed Manila’s notorious pattern in the South China Sea: it deliberately provokes an incident, then distorts the facts and plays the victim. On Monday, personnel from the illegally grounded Philippine vessel BRPContinue Reading
CGTN A maritime confrontation between China and the Philippines near Ren’ai Jiao on Monday has drawn global attention as regional diplomats gather for the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, with the China-ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting set to take place on July 22. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is scheduled toContinue Reading
Chinese and Russian navies will hold the “Joint Sea-2026” naval exercise this month in waters and airspace near the Chinese port city of Qingdao in east China’s Shandong Province, China’s Ministry of National Defense announced Sunday. Following the exercise, some forces from both sides will conduct a joint maritimeContinue Reading
China expresses grave concern over Japan’s move to deepen cooperation with NATO, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said on Monday. Lin made the remarks when asked to comment on Japan’s announcement that it would dispatch four Self-Defense Forces personnel to the NATO Security Assistance and Training for UkraineContinue Reading
China and the United States should implement the important consensus reached by the two countries’ leaders and work toward a stable and sustainable military-to-military relationship, Chinese scholars said at a high-level security forum in Singapore, as global security faces rising risks from hegemonism, disorder of global governance and emergingContinue Reading
Russia carried out a retaliatory combined strike on Ukraine’s military airfields and energy, fuel and transport infrastructure supporting the Ukrainian armed forces, the Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday. In response to Ukraine’s attacks on Russian targets, “Russian forces launched a combined strike with long-range land- and air-launched high-precision weaponsContinue Reading
