China’s September 2025 Victory Day parade wasn’t your typical military flexing. While Western analysts obsess over drone swarms reshaping battlefields, Beijing showcased something more calculated: a full-spectrum arsenal designed for multi-domain ...

China’s recent and massive military parade commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II highlighted concerns around that nation’s “unprecedented military buildup.” And yes, China is indeed building up its military equipment at a ...

Madolyn Moore is a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation. Earlier this month, China hosted its first military parade since 2019—an exhibition Chinese leader Xi Jinping claimed was intended to celebrate the nation’s role in ...

FIRST ON FOX: American universities are educating thousands of Chinese nationals with ties to the Chinese military — the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), according to findings from a new China Committee report. Over 400 Chinese nationals at just one of ...

India-China Military Standoff: Having the largest army in the world, flexing military muscle and showing hard power aggression comes naturally to China. From the contested waters of the South China Sea to the Himalayas, such behaviour has been noticed ...

Jori Hall is a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation. Last year, the Department of War warned that China could be ready to invade Taiwan as early as 2027. Now, the People’s Liberation Army is actively gauging rivals’ military ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Over the past fifteen years, China has increasingly become the dominant military power in Southeast Asia. At least, China has become so in ...