A US commission on bilateral relations with China has warned that the country’s fast-growing military may pose a threat to US security, while urging Congress to assess whether America’s involvement in the region diminishes its own military capabilities. “The military capabilities China is developing will expand or improve the ability of the People’s Liberation Army…
Slowly but surely, China’s first indigenous carrier is coming into being. Laid down in 2015 with an expected launch date in 2017 or 2018, China’s second aircraft carrier may enter full service sometime around 2020. The lack of transparency around the project has spurred a tremendous degree of speculation, down to some very basic questions. As…
A big photo report from the Chinese Liaoning aircraft carrier: https://southfront.org/wp-content/uploads/video/M.A._12.04.2016_PLAN_Aircraft_Carrier_Program_.mp4 Source: South Front
Today brings a new TOP500 list of the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world. And China still sits on top, with the number one and number two systems: Sunway TaihuLight, at a Linpack rating of 93 petaflops, and Tianhe-2, at 34 petaflops. That said, two new systems are in the top 10, both of which run…
China’s new J-20 stealth fighter jet bears similarities to an experimental prototype for a fifth-generation fighter jet produced by Russia’s MiG aircraft corporation, the deputy editor of Russian military magazine “Arsenal of the Fatherland” Dmitry Drozdenko told Sputnik. China unveiled two Chengdu J-20 stealth fighters at the Zhuhai air show in Beijing on Tuesday. While the exact specifications…
It’s by now commonly recognized that the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is a broken and useless organization, given its final death blow by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi late last month after he pressured many of his regional counterparts to boycott next month’s planned meeting in Pakistan. The group had long held…
