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Beijing:  China’s military Tuesday claimed to have ‘expelled’ a US Navy destroyer which sailed through the disputed South China Sea challenging Beijing’s claims over the area. US naval ships regularly sail through the disputed South China Sea (SCS) in a bid to assert freedom of navigation in the region. China claims almost all of the 1.3 million square mile South China Sea as its sovereign territory. China has been building military bases on artificial islands in the region also claime...

The Western Theatre Command (WTC) is the largest of the five. It includes challenging physical features such as high mountains in the Himalayan border region with India and has to deal with social strife in places like Tibet and Xinjiang, where Beijing has crushed any form of dissent or protest with an iron hand.   The WTC’s key strategic focus is, however, India and the long-disputed border the two countries share. The WTC has a joint operations command centre in Chengdu while the theatre�...

General. Zhang Xudong has been appointed as the Commander of the Western Theatre Command. Chinese President Xi Jinping&nbsp New Delhi: Chinese President Xi Jinping has appointed a new General as the Commander of the Peoples Liberation Armys Western Theatre Command which oversees the China-India border, amidst the military standoff in eastern Ladakh. President Xi, who heads the Central Military Commission (CMC), the overall high-command of the two million-strong Peoples Liberation ...

Who is Zhang Xudong, Chinas new Western Theatre commander?  Who is Zhang Xudong, Chinas new Western Theatre commander?  General Zhang Xudong has been appointed the new commander of the PLAs Western Theatre Command (WTC), replacing General Zhao Zongqi. Heres all you need to know about Zhang Xudong: advertisement UPDATED: December 22, 2020 11:14 IST While Xudong has no experience of Tibet or Xinjiang (under WTC), he has served many years in the erstwhile sensitive Shenyang MR, responsible for t...

Fresh face at PLA Western Theatre Command, no ground impact expected SECTIONS Share Synopsis The changeover—Lt Gen Zhang Xudong takes over from Zhao Zongqi as the Western Theatre Commander—has been described by military analysts as the right timing as no action is expected on the borders through the winter months, giving him adequate time to settle in. AP Representative image NEW DELHI: A new Chinese commander has been appointed to take charge of military formations facing India—a region ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping (Illustration: Swarajya Magazine) With no end to the deadlock between Indian and Chinese forces at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eastern Ladakh since the expansionist and aggressive moves made by the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army earlier this year, President Xi Jinping has appointed a new General as the Commander for his Western Theatre Command, Economic Times. President Xi Jinping heads the Central Military Commission (CMC) of China, which heads the PLA. H...