Defence`s Feeds

A YU-20 tanker aircraft of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force and a J-15 carrier-based fighter jet of the PLA Navy have conducted their first in-flight refueling exercise. Experts said on Wednesday that this exercise has displayed the systematic integration among different PLA services and will enhance the capabilities of Chinese aircraft carriers.

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The Department of Homeland Security has banned imports into the United States of goods produced by a Chinese battery maker and a spice maker due to their alleged use of forced Uyghur labor, prompting complaints from China's foreign ministry about a smear campaign.

Reclamation projects in Manila Bay being built by a Chinese firm on a U.S. blacklist could have "irreversible environmental impacts," the American embassy here warned on Wednesday.

The US State Department announced that it has invited China's newly reappointed Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who is also director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, to visit the US, while the Chinese side released no information about the invitation as of press time despite confirmation of the meeting between a senior Chinese diplomat and senior US officials from the

Weeks ahead of a planned U.S.-Japan-South Korea summit in the United States, Beijing is making its own push for increased engagement with its two Asian neighbors. Experts say the move is in concert with Beijing's efforts to bolster ties with North Korea and Russia.

Republican candidates for their party's presidential nomination are increasingly open to the idea of ending the trade relationship between the U.S. and China that, since 2000, has given Beijing permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) status and has smoothed commerce between the world's two largest economies.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, also the military's commander-in-chief, this week replaced two leaders of the elite force overseeing the People's Liberation Army's conventional and nuclear missiles.

At least 20 people have died and hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated, as torrential downpours continue to batter northern China on Wednesday, as the Chinese capital saw its heaviest rainfall since records began 140 years ago.

Fortifications are being actively constructed near the tent camp of the private Wagner mercenary group in the village of Tsel in eastern Belarus, the site believed to be where troops from Yevgeny Prigozhin's company have settled after its aborted mutiny in Russia in late June.

The Agricultural Commission of the DPRK intensifies the technical guidance to ensure that all the farms cultivate the crops in a sci-tech way to actively cope with the changes of weather.

China's security ministry has opened its official account on the country's popular everything app, urging its citizens to participate in counter-espionage work.

The United States is pushing back at a Chinese government initiative that encourages its nationals to participate in counterespionage activities. The State Department said on Wednesday that encouraging citizens to spy on each other is "something that's of great concern."

After China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) debuted on WeChat on Tuesday, calling on the whole society to contribute to counter-espionage efforts, the agency released detailed guidelines on Thursday on how to report and where to report suspected spy activities while emphasizing the importance of punishing espionage and protecting human rights.

The Taiwan High Court on Monday approved a motion filed by prosecutors to detain an Army lieutenant colonel and hold him incommunicado on suspicion of recruiting military officers to collect military intelligence for China.

Mohammad Eslami, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, has lauded the Iranian government for countering a disinformation campaign by adversaries to tarnish public opinion about the country's nuclear activities.

The first day of the naval exercises of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) kicked off on Wednesday morning in Abu Musa island while featuring the Qadir cruise missile system, unmanned vessels equipped with artificial intelligence (AI), and the Fath ballistic missile.

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy has launched drills to show its power and combat defense readiness in protecting the security of the Persian Gulf as well as the country's islands.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy on Wednesday started a naval wargame in Iran's Abu Musa isand focusing on strong defense for Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf.