Gorbachev: The Next War Will Be the Last

Gorbachev: The Next War Will Be the Last

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev declared in an interview with radio station Echo Moskvy that if the crisis escalates to another war, this war will be the last. NATO leaders agreed on Friday to deploy military forces to the Baltic states and eastern Poland while increasing air and sea patrols to demonstrate readiness to defend eastern members against the alleged ‘Russian…

Price to pay for US: Beijing ready to confront Washington if it intervenes in S.China Sea dispute

© China Daily / Reuters Beijing must prepare to make the US “pay a cost it can’t stand” if it intervenes in the South China Sea dispute by force, a state newspaper editorial has warned, days before a court at The Hague rules on the territorial row between China and the Philippines. The American military build-up…

Taiwan accidentally launches missile toward China, kills fishing boat captain

Taiwan accidentally launches missile toward China, kills fishing boat captain

A spokesman for Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense apologized on behalf of the military for the missile incident led to the death of fishing boat captain Huang Wen-Chung. Yesterday, a Taiwan warship accidentally launched a supersonic missile toward China. The “aircraft carrier killer” hit a fishing boat and killed its captain. The Republic of China considers this mistaken…

Taiwan to test-fire missiles in US as China tensions rise
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Taiwan to test-fire missiles in US as China tensions rise

Taiwan plans to test-fire its newest anti-missile system for the first time in the United States next month as relations with rival China deteriorate, a defence source and media reports said Monday. Relations between China and Taiwan have cooled rapidly under the island’s new Beijing-sceptic president Tsai Ing-wen, who took office in May, ending an…