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CCTV China's largest amphibious landing helicopter dock will operate as a small aircraft carrier platform, say analysts. But a lack of vertical take-off and landing capability is a gap between the Chinese class and US and Japanese amphibious warships. It's just two digits but the number on the hull of the first of China's largest amphibious landing helicopter docks (LHD) points to a high value. The first Type 075 Yushen-class Hainan ship was given the pennant number "31" when the PLA Navy commissioned it on April 23, the navy's 72nd anniversary. Smaller amphibiou...

South China Sea Update: This Photo Shows What The US Navy Really Thinks Of China's Aircraft Carrier KEY POINTS The photo is an instance of "cognitive warfare," said an analyst Sizable U.S. and Chinese forces are now in the South China Sea  A picture is worth a thousand words, the adage goes. Amid an increasingly belligerent China trying to assert it expansionist claims in the South China Sea and the United States looking to counter that and reassure its allies in the region, if there is one picture that can capture what one antagonist thinks of another, this is it. 

China and the US are both building up their forces in the East and South China seas by sending carriers and escorts to the region.

news Japan feels diplomatic squeeze as US-China tensions rise Decades of balanced diplomacy between Taiwan and Japan under threat. Illustration: Kakuen Lau China and Japan have decades of experience in managing their regular diplomatic crises, but escalating tensions over Taiwan and territorial disputes in the East China Sea are creating a new test for Asia's most powerful giants. Last month's agreement between US and Japanese defence ministers to single out China as a common threat - and the earlier face-off in Alaska between senior Chinese and US diplomats - indicated rising US-China tensi...

The long-running dispute between India and China over the Himalayan border could potentially escalate into world war 3 due to the countries that may get involved. Following the altercations that happened months prior, China has now stepped up its military forces at the border even more by deploying missile launchers. Another skirmish between Indian and Chinese troops occurred again last week, according to India’s military. The assaults left several troops injured, adding to the casualties that both sides received at the highly-contested border. Now, according to Kanwa Defense Review editor ...