Key Points and Summary – As China prepares for a massive military parade to showcase its rapidly modernizing forces, a deep crisis of leadership is unfolding within the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

They roll down Beijing streets, covered from prying eyes by huge tarpaulins, but the silhouettes of missiles, tanks and undersea vehicles are unmistakable as China prepares for its most revealing ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has made a rare trip to Tibet and hailed the crushing of “separatism” in the once-restive region, ...

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has shown for the first time that the maritime operations of high-altitude long endurance (HALE) unmanned aerial ...

In eastern Ladakh, the immediate focus will be restoring India’s patrolling rights in areas where ‘no-patrol buffer zones’ were created after earlier disengagement rounds up to September 2022 ...

The two top officers in command of China's nuclear forces have both been replaced without explanation. The respective political commissar and operational commander of the People's Liberation Army ...

China will stage a massive military parade next month in Beijing to commemorate 80 years since the end of World War Two ...

India has successfully test-fired an indigenously developed intermediate-range ballistic missile capable of carrying a ...

In the face of growing Chinese military power, America needs to relearn how to conduct a fighting retreat in the Pacific, a U ...

The launch of wide-ranging Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) restructuring at the end of November may lead some would-be readers and China specialists away from The People’s Liberation Army as ...

Subscribe for ads-free reading In July 2015, the U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute published a collection of papers under the title, The Chinese People’s Liberation Army in 2025.

The Diplomat speaks with M. Taylor Fravel about how China’s People’s Liberation Army thinks about war. By Ankit Panda January 30, 2019 Credit: AP Photo/Kin Cheung ...