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The United States has a military that includes about 1.3 million people spread across the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. It is not by any means the world’s largest. That distinction belongs to China. Its military has slightly more than two million members. Some estimates put the figure higher, and in […]

The PLA is not the overly large, poorly trained, inwardly-focused force it used to be. Key point: Beijing wants to be a true great power and that means embracing new technology, better weapons, and new training. Here is how China has built a military that has made its neighbors nervous. Western media seized on a new Pentagon report that Chinese bombers are training to strike deep into the Western Pacific, including Guam, the Philippines and Japan. But Chinas military is improving in numerous o...

China Is America’s Beast From Hell Whereas Moscow’s foreign policy has been moved by insecurity, China’s foreign policy has been moved by the specter of humiliation—and now both countries have teamed up. The recent declaration by President Joseph Biden that Russian president Vladimir Putin is “a killer” and the fallout from the U.S.-China meeting in Anchorage are undoubtedly an assertion of both American public decency and grievances against China and Russia. However, this stance is...

Toggle open close The Biden Administration recently agreed to an unconditional five-year extension of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with the Russian Federation before it was scheduled to expire on February 5, 2021. New START restricts the number of strategic nuclear delivery systems and warheads each country can deploy, but the treaty contains significant flaws. Instead of continuing the Trump Administration’s efforts to seek improvements to the treaty, the United States...

View: China, Turkey and Pakistans unholy nuclear nexus and its global ramifications SECTIONS View: China, Turkey and Pakistans unholy nuclear nexus and its global ramificationsBy Dr. Nalin Kumar Mohapatra, ET CONTRIBUTORS Last Updated: Feb 11, 2021, 01:23 PM IST Share Synopsis As has been observed by US Office of the Secretary of Defense in its annual report to the Congress, Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2020, "PLA to develop the capability to pro...

Biden faces herculean task on global stage January 21, 2021, 2:24 PM IST Aninda Dey is a journalist with two decades of experience. He writes on foreign affairs and other issues that catch his eye. He tweets @ObituaryofNews. The 46th POTUS has to restore alliances and tackle a resurgent China, a more aggressive Russia, Iran uranium enrichment and North Korean nukes. Joseph R Biden Jr. has to negotiate a series of foreign policy landmines laid out by his...