China’s efforts to buy influence in Africa through infrastructure and investment may not yield the returns Beijing hopes for, ...

Understanding how China fights at the operational level is the first step in ensuring that the Army will be prepared for any ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China ... expansion at [Eastern Theater Command]'s Zhoushan ...

and joint missions with China Coast Guard units. In a recent training operation, a Type 22 boat commanded by Yang Wu from the PLA Eastern Theater Command intercepted a foreign naval warship that ...

said he made the assessment after two Japanese military experts warned of emerging threats from China based on a drill conducted this month by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Eastern ...

It was noticed by a visitor in Taizhou, Jiangsu province who was aboard a Nanjing Type 052D guided-missile destroyer – part of the PLA Navy’s Eastern Theatre Command whose main role is to ...

On April 1, a spokesperson for the Eastern Theater Command of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) announced that the command had organized a joint military exercise around Taiwan ...

A spokesman for China’s Eastern Theater Command denounced the passage as a publicity measure and the American justification for it as a distortion. “The US’s relevant remarks distorted the ...

China reacted sharply. A spokesperson for the military's Eastern Theater Command said in a statement that China has been monitoring the passage of the US vessel. The spokesperson said the US ...

The PLA Eastern Theater Command said that it had dispatched naval and air forces to monitor and warn the destroyer, which it named as the USS William P. Lawrence. “Relevant remarks by the US have ...

China held its latest round of war games around Taiwan earlier this month, drawing condemnation from Taipei and concern from the US and its allies. The Eastern Theatre Command of China’s People ...

Shi Yi, spokesman for the PLA Eastern Theater Command, said in a release that the guided-missile destroyer USS William P Lawrence transited the Taiwan Strait and publicly hyped the action.