China’s Military Commission leadership at stake at Xi’s Peoples Congress
With this Party Congress under way in Beijing, Xi Jinping will put in place China's political and military leadership for the next five years, writes Dean Cheng.
With this Party Congress under way in Beijing, Xi Jinping will put in place China's political and military leadership for the next five years, writes Dean Cheng.
Gen. Wei Fenghe described the US Indo-Pacific strategy as "an attempt to build an exclusive small group in the name of a free and open Indo-Pacific." It is designed "to create conflict and confrontation, to contain and encircle others."
Richard Marles disclosed the meeting, which was unplanned and took flight from a dinner the two men attended: "We're sitting at the same table and we both agreed that it was important our two countries meet."
The most profound change resulting from China’s military modernization has been in its space capabilities. Back in 2000 China only had 10 satellites in orbit, and this year it will launch more satellites than any other nation on the planet.
We could see the most direct U.S. challenge to China since 2005, when Defense Secretary Rumsfeld became the proverbial skunk at the globalist garden party in Singapore by bluntly chastising the Chinese for what was then only the very beginning of their military modernization program.