People's Liberation Army

Microsoft Researchers Partner with Sanctioned Chinese Universities to Empower Surveillance State

Microsoft Research Asia, an influential research institute based in Beijing and Shanghai, has continued to conduct AI research at high risk of abuse, including facial recognition, with sanctioned Chinese universities linked to the communist country’s military. Despite these ties Microsoft insists there are guardrails against such sensitive research at the institute.  

Microsoft Research Asia helps China's surveillance state

Pentagon Warns China Has Tripled Its Nuclear Arsenal

The Pentagon’s annual Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China report, released on Wednesday, found that China is making progress toward its goal of military modernization despite persistent corruption problems.

Spectators wave Chinese flags as military vehicles carrying DF-41 nuclear ballistic missil

Earthquake and Landslides Rock China

The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in China, home of the oppressed Uyghur Muslims, was hit by an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 on Tuesday afternoon, the day after a massive landslide struck the southwestern province of Yunnan. The earthquake killed at least three people, while at least 31 have been killed by the landslide.

Rescue workers search for missing victims at a damaged house following a landslide in Lian