The new Central Committee members, alternate members, and major provincial and ministerial-level leading cadres study and implement Xi Jinping's new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the spirit of the 20th Party Congress seminar held at the Central Party School (National School of Administration. Just after the beginning of spring, the first provincial and ministerial classes started after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. There are many new faces among the students. Members, alternate members, and major leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial levels of the new Central Committee gathered together. Click here to read... [2]
On in-depth study and understanding of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the opening ceremony of the seminar on studying and implementing the spirit of the 20th National
Congress of the Communist Party of China. President Xi, specially emphasized that it is a great enrichment and development of Chinese-style modernization theory. It is very political, theoretical, pertinent, and instructive. It is of great significance to understand Chinese-style modernization, comprehensively study, fully grasp, and fully implement the spirit of the 20th Party Congress, and strive to create a new situation in the development of the party and the country on the new journey. Click here to read... [3]
On February 7th, the new Central Committee members, and major leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial levels studied and implemented Xi Jinping's new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the spirit of the 20th Party Congress seminar held at the Central Party School (National School of Administration) . Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, state president, and chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivered an important speech at the opening ceremony. Chinese-style modernization is a major achievement achieved by our party leading the people of all ethnic groups in the country through long-term exploration and practice through untold hardships and at a huge price. Just after the beginning of spring, the first provincial and ministerial classes started after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. There are many new faces among the students. Members, alternate members, and major leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial levels of the new Central Committee gathered together.The "key node" of the new journey, facing the "key minority", on the podium, General Secretary Xi Jinping's speech focused on Chinese-style modernization. Click here to read... [4]
Xi’s speech offered a “strategic perspective, was broad in its vision, profound in thought and rich in its connotations.” It also “greatly enriched and further developed the theory of Chinese-style modernisation.” In addition, it was “highly political, theoretical, targeted and instructive.” And, of course, it “is of great significance for the whole Party to correctly understand Chinese-style modernisation, comprehensively study and grasp and fully implement the spirit of the 20th Party Congress, and strive to create a new situation in the development of the cause of the Party and the country on a new journey.” Click here to read... [5]
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Taiwan has observed dozens of Chinese military balloon flights in its airspace in recent years, far more than previously known, adding to concerns that Beijing could be preparing for an attack on the country.
The disclosures also come as the People’s Liberation Army has been strengthening capacities it would need to invade Taiwan. Beijing claims the island as part of its territory and has a longstanding threat of annexing it with military force if Taipei refuses to submit to its control indefinitely.
Taiwanese government officials said the Chinese balloons observed in Taiwan’s airspace normally fly at about 20,000ft, much lower than the one that traversed the US, and are made from a different material. The US shot down three additional objects over the weekend over North American airspace. But the Taiwanese officials said the balloons’ dimensions and payload put them outside the scope of ordinary weather balloons allowed to cross other countries’ airspace without prior approval under international law. Click here to read... [6]
Code-named the Type 052DE for export, the 7,500-tonne destroyer with advanced integrated radar, missile and command systems would be the most powerful anti-aircraft vessel available on the global market, according to an article in the Chinese military magazine Naval and Merchant Ships last week. Like the Chinese navy’s latest Type 052D, the Type 052DE is 161 metres (528 feet) long, 18 metres wide and powered by combined diesel or gas propulsion systems capable of sailing at speeds of up to 32 knots. Click here to read... [7]
The PLA’s mandate in securing Chinese global interests is growing at a fast pace with an active focus on Africa that has a huge coastline along the Indian Ocean as well as the Pacific Ocean. The 2015 defence white paper identified safeguarding ‘overseas interests’ as a ‘strategic task’ for the PLA. The PLA is actively developing ‘overseas logistical facilities’. Click here to read... [8]
China, together with host Pakistan and more than 50 participating countries, kicked off the AMAN-23 multinational maritime exercise in Karachi on Friday. The drills are expected to enhance the participants' interoperability against instabilities and threats in the Indian Ocean region and safeguard vital international sea lines of communication and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
A grand opening ceremony for the five-day AMAN-23 exercise was held on Friday morning at the Pakistan Navy Dockyard, in front of the PNS Taimur, a Type 054A/P guided missile frigate that China built for Pakistan. Honor guards raised the participating countries' national flags, while balloons and pigeons representing peace were released into the skies.
Under the motto "Together for Peace", this is the eighth edition of the AMAN exercises since 2007. It is divided into two phases: harbor and sea. Click here to read... [9]
China is likely to interpret it as ‘encirclement’, analysts say – but for some in Southeast Asia an increased US military presence is a ‘public good’. At the start of this month, it expanded a defence pact with the Philippines that grants American troops access to four additional bases, offering Washington better oversight over the waters of the disputed South China Sea and around Taiwan. Click here to read... [10]
China's defense ministry spokesman Tan Kefei attends a news conference in the venue of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN's Defense Ministers' Meeting in Siem Reap, Cambodia, on Nov. 22, 2022. China’s Defense Ministry said in a statement Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023, it refused a call from U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin following the shooting down of an alleged Chinese spy balloon because the U.S. had “not created the proper atmosphere" for dialogue and exchange. Click here to read... [11]
The United States persisted in using force to attack China's civilian unmanned airship, a move that seriously violated international practices and set a very bad precedent, Tan said.
Given that the U.S. side's irresponsible and erroneous move has failed to create a proper atmosphere for dialogue and exchanges between the two militaries, China did not accept the U.S. proposal for a phone call between the two defense chiefs. China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs had made a public statement regarding the nature of the incident, he said, adding that China reserves the right to take necessary measures to deal with similar situations. Click here to read... [12]
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi's first visit to China since taking office in 2021 will further implement the comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Iran, and shows the Raisi administration's unswerving determination to promote the "Look to the East" policy. Iran's "Look to the East" policy meant the transition from its policy of negative balancing and non-alignment to building alliances with non-western world powers that have similar political structures to Iran, such as Russia and China. Click here to read... [13]
Xi said that the ties between the two countries had “withstood the tests of various international vicissitudes.” He also added, noting that no matter how the international and regional situation changes, China will unswervingly develop friendly cooperation with Iran, push for new development of the China-Iran comprehensive strategic partnership, and play a positive role in world peace and human progress. Xi stressed that China supports Iran in safeguarding its sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and national dignity, supports Iran in resisting unilateralism and bullying, and opposes external forces interfering in Iran's internal affairs and undermining Iran's security and stability. Click here to read... [14]
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday stressed the importance of correctly understanding and vigorously advancing Chinese modernization.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks while addressing the opening of a study session at the Party School of the CPC Central Committee (National Academy of Governance). The opening ceremony was presided over by Li Qiang, and attended by Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, and Li Xi. They are all members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.Realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has been a shared aspiration of the Chinese people since the beginning of modern times, Xi noted, adding that the historical task of exploring the Chinese path to modernization fell on the shoulders of the CPC. Click here to read... [15]
Late in December 2022 the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) indicated that the training of pilots transitioning from trainers to fourth-generation fighters has expanded to another of the PLA Air Force’s (PLAAF) flight academies. Consequently, two of the PLAAF’s three flight academies are now conducting transition training to two types of fourth-generation fighters. Although this does not completely relieve operational units of the burden of conducting transition training, the expansion is a part of a broader effort in the PLA to shift the burden of training to the schoolhouse, one that should ultimately improve the efficiency of training in the PLA as a whole. Click here to read... [16]
CASI’s mission is to advance the understanding of the strategy, doctrine, operating concepts, capabilities, personnel, training, organization, of China’s aerospace forces and the civilian and commercial infrastructure that supports them. CASI supports the Secretary, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, the Chief of Space Operations, and other senior Air and Space leaders. CASI provides expert research and analysis supporting decision and policy makers in the Department of Defense and across the U.S. government. Click here to read... [17]
In the aftermath of the downing of China’s surveillance balloon, it’s been a week of speechifying – US President Joe Biden with a State of the Union address and CPC General Secretary Xi Jinping on why China is special at the opening of a study session at the Party School of the CPC Central Committee (National Academy of Governance). Xi, according to the Xinhua report at least, appears to have made no references or allusions to balloons; rather he came across as fixated on the uniqueness of Chinese modernization and how it was worth championing and fighting for: ‘The cause of promoting Chinese modernization, which is an unprecedented and pioneering venture, will inevitably encounter all kinds of risks, challenges, difficulties and even dangerous storms, some of which we can foresee and others we cannot,’ Xi said. ‘Let us harness our indomitable fighting spirit to open new horizons for our cause.’ Click here to read... [18]
Gyirong port is among the five port projects completed last year, which are expected to become important passageways linking the inland region with South Asia.The region saw robust growth in foreign trade last year, posting a rise of 14.6 percent to 4.6 billion yuan (about 677 million U.S. dollars). The figure was 6.9 percentage points higher than the country's average growth rate for 2022.The region's exports reached 4.3 billion yuan, while its imports stood at 292 million yuan last year, according to Lhasa Customs. Private enterprises were big contributors to the region's foreign trade in 2022. Imports and exports by private firms stood at 4.49 billion yuan, accounting for 97.6 percent of the region's total foreign trade last year. Pangyenmedo Industrial & Trading Company Ltd., produces and exports traditional Tibetan blankets. Click here to read... [19]
China has committed to its carbon emissions peaking by 2030 and the country’s achieving carbon neutrality by 2060. The CCPI experts note that the government’s strategies are focused on the medium-term goal of peaking carbon and its long-term policies are not concrete enough. Still, current China’s GHG per capita and 2030 target are not aligned with a well-below-2°C trajectory. Click here to read... [20]
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