China's US ambassador plays down tensions after Hagel trip

BEIJING, March 27 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese armed forces have kept close contact with militaries and defense departments of other countries in the search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, said a Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman on ...

China "Dissatisfied" With Hagel's Remarks: Chinese Military Leader (Source: Xinhua; published April 8, 2014) BEIJING --- China was "dissatisfied" with remarks made by U.S. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel in ASEAN defence ministers ...

The US Department of Defense (DoD) will send two additional ballistic-missile defence destroyers to Japan by 2017 to counter North Korean provocations, US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has said. The announcement was made by Hagel during a joint ...

Since his ascension to power in late-2012, President Xi Jinping has introduced a more assertive brand of Chinese foreign policy. The ASEAN-led efforts at establishing a legally binding Code of Conduct (CoC) in the West Philippine Sea (South China ...

China's defense spending, despite rapid increases, matches the legitimate national defense needs of a large country. Chinese President Xi Jinping made these remarks in response to a question on China's rising defense budget after a speech sponsored ...

The Defense Department will increase the number of cyber professionals from roughly 1,800 today to more than 6,000 by 2016, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said last week. Hagel's remakrs came ahead of a trip to China in which he is expected to ...

2014-04-09 (from janes.com ) — New Chinese-sourced imagery shows that the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) continues to modify its Type 041 Yuan class conventional submarine and that it is making progress towards a new large destroyer or ...

The US State Departments says the Obama administration officials will hold a series of meetings with Chinese officials about North Korea's new nuclear test. US Special Representative for North Korea Glyn Davies will meet with Special Representative ...

April 1, 2014: The Chinese defense budget increased again this year by over ten percent to $132 billion. Some U.S. intelligence analysts believe the real defense spending is now closer to $200 billion. Like other communist nations the Chinese keep a ...