Defence`s Feeds

Syrians are facing an "ever worsening humanitarian crisis" amid the ongoing 12-year-long conflict, top UN officials told the Security Council on Thursday, as the General Assembly adopted a resolution to create a first-of-its-kind institution to address the issue of more than 100,000 people still missing in the country.

Taiwan said Thursday that it has signed a NT$4.5 billion (US146 million) deal to purchase 14 anti-tank munition-laying systems from the United States.

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has called for developing a good grasp of the CPC Central Committee's important theory on Party building, and improving the quality of the Party's organizational work.

China's first foreign relations law, which was passed by the nation's top legislature on Wednesday, provides the necessary legal guarantees for the country to safeguard its sovereignty, security and development interests amid increased foreign sanctions and restrictions, a senior Chinese diplomat said.

A new Chinese "super" observation station for climate and environmental monitoring has opened in Tajikistan, as China aims to advance in a developing technological arena and improve its green credentials in Central and South Asia.

Beijing says the Joe Biden administration needs to lift sanctions against China if it wants high level communications between the two world powers' armed forces.

Renewed calls by Chinese officials for the lifting of sanctions in exchange for open lines of communication with the U.S. military are echoing into a diplomatic abyss, even as tensions between the two superpowers continue to mount.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, following his visit to Beijing, said military cooperation dialogue is "work in progress" as the United States and China have not agreed to resume military-to-military communication amid rising tensions in the bilateral relationship.

Chinese-language state media was silent on Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen's meeting with a bipartisan U.S. congress visit this week, but the English-language tabloid Global Times described the delegation as representing "hostile forces."

Shortly after the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken concluded his visit to China that helped relaunch the high-level exchanges between the two countries, the US top diplomat came up with some remarks addressing the US-China relations, which according to some experts, unleashed mixed signals, putting the sincerity of Washington to repair the soured ties into question.

A delegation of Chinese former government officials and commerce representatives held a dialogue with their US counterparts online on Thursday, including the former Chinese Ambassador to the US Cui Tiankai and a former deputy managing director of the IMF Zhu Min, in what was seen as important semi-official talks to de-escalate tensions between the two countries.

China's waning economic leverage over South Korea is making Beijing less likely to retaliate significantly against Seoul's normalization of the U.S. THAAD anti-missile defense system, experts say.

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The US State Department has approved a possible $15 billion sale of an Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS) and related equipment, including Patriot launchers and missiles, to Poland, the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said Wednesday.

Cuban delegation led by Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces Corps General Alvaro Lopez during an official visit to the Russian Federation visited Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia.

Russia was thrust into a 24-hour internal security crisis from late Friday to late Saturday after Wagner PMC chief Evgeny Prigozhin threatened to march on Moscow to "sort out" the Russian military's top brass after alleging they had attacked his men. President Putin said Tuesday that the Russian military had saved the country from a "civil war."

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The first time Valery Golubkin's family saw him in court was the day he was convicted of treason and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Russian media reports on June 28 continued to speculate about the whereabouts of the deputy commander of Russian armed forces' united group, Sergei Surovikin, and his role in the weekend revolt despite Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov's dismissal of the reports.

The Kremlin said Thursday it could not provide information about Russian General Sergei Surovikin, who has not been seen in public since Saturday, when Wagner mercenary group head Yevgeny Prigozhin led a mutiny attempt against the Russian military.