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China's inclusion in NATO's Strategic Concept isn't necessarily groundbreaking, IISS's Meia Nouwens tells Breaking Defense, but the "interesting part: what will come next?"

A fighter jet attached to an aviation brigade under the PLA Eastern Theater Command soars into the sky during a live-fire flight training exercise in mid-June, 2022.

The Chinese military baselessly warned on Saturday that a U.S. military plane's flight over the Taiwan Strait international waterway had endangered peace

The US Navy reportedly sent a warship to the South China Sea on Saturday, only one day after a US spy plane provocatively flew over the Taiwan Straits under the close monitoring of the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army (PLA). Chinese experts said on Sunday that the US vessel might also stir up troubles in the South China Sea or the Taiwan Straits, yet the PLA would be ready to deal with any aggressions it could make.

The “international waters” repeatedly claimed by the US is neither derived from the UNCLOS nor from the rules of general international laws, but is based on its domestic and foreign policies, domestic laws and its unilateral interpretation of the international maritime laws.

A large number of warships of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy reportedly sailed to waters east of the island of Taiwan and south of Japan as dozens of PLA warplanes carried out drills on Tuesday and Wednesday, with analysts saying on Thursday that the joint maritime and aerial exercise could greatly enhance combat readiness against “Taiwan independence” and foreign interference forces.

Twenty-nine Chinese Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) warplanes entered the island of Taiwan’s self-proclaimed air defense identification zone on Tuesday, marking the third largest PLA aerial drill around Taiwan this year, which according to Chinese military observers indicated that the PLA could be practicing new tactics to counter possible US aircraft carrier intervention.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has reportedly signed a legal order that operationalizes a trial of "military operations" beyond Chinese borders, copying language from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, recently signed an order to promulgate a set of trial outlines on military operations other than war, which will take effect on Wednesday.

China enjoys sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction over the Taiwan Straits, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a press conference on Monday, responding to the US and its allies’ claims that most of the Taiwan Straits are “international waters”.