Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (L) speaks as Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Zarar Ahmad Osmani looks on during a news conference in Kabul February 22, 2014.
China has been busy investing in Iraq since US withdrawal there. The US has spent a fortune and US troops have suffered casualty there...
Chinese poster design ion engine designed by NII-510 CASC (c) mil.sina.cn
Resource friendly "Periskop.2" (periscope2.ru) writes that, according to a Chinese newspaper "Zhongguo kesyue bao", SRI-510 "Fifth Academy" Chinese state aerospace concern China Aerospace Science and Technology...
Beijing will increase the budget of the People's Liberation Army by 10% to an estimated 792 billion yuan (US$130.6 billion) for 2014, reports our Chinese-language sister paper China Times.
China's national defense budget for 2013 was 720 billion yuan (US$118.7 billion), which ranked second in...
China's DF-25 medium-range ballistic missile revealed
Based on the DF-21 medium-range ballistic missile, China has recently developed a more advanced DF-25 medium-range ballistic missile. The advanement follows India's completion of its Agni-V intercontinental ballistic missile, capabile of...
Russian daredevils scale the Shanghai Tower, China's new tallest building
Pair climb 650 metres to top of skyscraper and beyond, giving them an extraordinary view of fast-growing city
• Climbing the Shanghai Tower - in pictures
Vadim Makhorov and Vitaly Raskalov climb the unfinished Shanghai...
China has used a domestically made underwater robot to study polymetallic sulfide in the southwest Indian Ocean, where it has procured an exploration contract for 15 years.
Scientists aboard the "Dayang-1" oceanic research vessel remotely operated the "Hailong" unmanned underwater vehicle on...
An exhibition of industrial robots in Shanghai, Nov. 5, 2013.
China is in the process of becoming the world's leding operator of industrial robots as an increasing number of its factories turn to mechanical devices to cope with rising labor costs and shortages. The number of industrial robots...
While much of the world’s media attention is focused on China’s indigenous fighter programs, such as the J-10, J-20 and J-21/31, Shenyang continues to develop the “Flanker” series that has been in PLAAF (People’s Liberation Army Air Force) service since 1992. The latest versions to go into...
Plans to permanently retire the USS George Washington and bring the Navy’s carrier-fleet total down to 10 are still being debated in ongoing budget deliberations despite reports the White House has scrapped any plans to reduce the carrier total.
Some of the uncertainty centers around potential...
China is building a new runway and other infrastructure on Myanmar's Coco islands, only 20 kilometers from India's Andaman and Nicobar islands, the Hindi-language Dainik Bhaskar newspaper has reported, following the 17th round of talks on China-India border issues held between Chinese state...