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Xi Jinping continues to purge his countrys top military leadership, a new report says.

Our correspondents in China and the US assess what each leader will be hoping to achieve on Wednesday.

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

The exuberance that accompanied the start of the summer counteroffensive in Ukraine has soured into uncertainty; this is a stalemate.

On the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, a rare in-person meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will provide an opportunity to put a range…

Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Fissures have appeared in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in recent months, with high-profile commanders, even the defence minister, removed due to corruption allegations. World News | Disturbances in the Force - Recent Developments in China's Military.

Lee said at an event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington: "If there are lower-echelon guys being taken out as well, that probably has a greater impact. But day-to-day [Peoples Liberation Army] operational readiness on the conventional or nuclear side, I doubt it is affected." He said the PLAs administrative and operational functions are designed to be robust to absorb losses from losing even the entire party committee of a unit by having backup pl...

And the Shandong carrier group is on the prowl again

In 2017, the U.S. recognized a state of Great Power Competition with China. In 2020, OSD publicly stated that “China has already achieved parity with – or even exceeded – the United States in several military modernization areas.

In June, Senator Sullivan (R-AL) discussed an unclassified intelligence estimate on the House Floor suggesting the Chinese defense budget is roughly $700 billion, over three times China’s official 2023 military