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The Chinese military this week concluded a month of unannounced exercises in the South China Sea and the Pacific aimed at testing its “wartime command system” and enhancing its missile defenses, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) revealed on Thursday.

WASHINGTON, DC — China’s “massive effort to grow and modernize” the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is “eroding” the United States’ “relative competitive military advantage” in the Indo-Pacific region, the top American commander in the area warned on Tuesday, stressing that Beijing’s communist leaders are sensing “weaknesses.”

China sent Taiwan a Lunar New Year video this week that included footage of Chinese warplanes and the badge of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force juxtaposed with the tallest skyscraper in Taipei. The Taiwanese responded with their own video of military exercises, making it clear they are prepared to fight for their freedom if necessary.

Police in Colombia accused the Marxist terrorist National Liberation Army (ELN) of killing 21 people and injuring dozens in a car bombing in the capital city, Bogotá, on Thursday.

China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has greatly increased its presence in the Taiwan Strait, part of the greater South China Sea, in response to the growing number of freedom of navigation operations by the U.S. Navy, the South China Morning Post reported on Monday.

October 1 is National Day in China, kicking off a week-long holiday marking the foundation of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.

Chinese citizens in Beijing, Shanghai, and other major population hubs throughout the country spent the weekend observing Nationwide National Defense Education Day, forced to practice air raid drills to know how to react to a military invasion.

Contents: China says that its military exercises are intended to threaten Taiwan; Taiwan, in cooperation with the U.S., strengthens defenses against China

China’s first domestically produced aircraft carrier, which has not been given an official name yet, began sea trials on Sunday morning.

China’s latest show of naval force occurred on Sunday in the East China Sea, where the aircraft carrier Liaoning led a fleet of undetermined size in live-fire combat drills.

China’s air force has released a propaganda video showing bomber aircraft patrolling the island as another warning for the country’s democratic government to toe the line with Beijing.

China’s Communist Party ruler Xi Jinping, meeting with high-level officials on Tuesday, celebrated advances to his totalitarian regime’s ambitions to keep political opponents silenced in the name of “national security.”

Chinese Communist Party leader traveled to the South China Sea on Thursday to preside over what state media are calling “the country’s largest ever maritime military parade,” a series of exercises meant to intimidate rival powers in a region where Beijing has illegally colonized foreign territory.

China is set to exact consequences for individuals who score low in its long-planned “social credit system,” announcing this week that it would begin to ban Chinese citizens from traveling if their social credit score was too low.

China appears to be attempting to capitalize on tensions between the United States and Pakistan, reportedly planning to build an overseas military base in the country and expand infrastructure projects as part of the larger One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative.

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) conducted air force exercises around Taiwan this weekend, as well as near South Korea and Japan, releasing a video of the drills.

Contents: China’s warplanes conduct ‘encirclement’ patrols around Taiwan’s and Japan’s islands; Encirclement patrols follow explicit Chinese war threats against Taiwan; China unification continues to lose support among the people of Taiwan

China’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the top anti-corruption agency in a government desperate to portray itself as dedicated to rooting out corruption, announced a new crusade against “hedonism and extravagance” on Monday. The idea is to prevent officials from using lavish parties, padded travel expenses, and other perks as a means of concealing graft.

Three Chinese citizens were indicted in U.S. federal court on Monday for attacking the computer systems of Siemens AG, Trimble Inc., and Moody’s Analytics in an effort to steal valuable corporate data.

Speaking at China’s 19th Communist Party Congress, President Xi Jinping vowed to continue modernizing and expanding its armed forces, with the goal of completing modernization by 2035 and achieving a “world-class military by 2050 that can fight and win wars across all theaters.”

China’s President Xi Jinping, clad in combat fatigues and overseeing one of the largest displays of military might in recent memory, applauded the nation’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) while warning them to remain “ready for fight, capable of combat, and sure to win.”

China’s People’s Liberation Army will celebrate its ninetieth birthday with a “full-scale, head-to-head military manoeuvre” in Asia’s largest military training base featuring a guest visit by President Xi Jinping, according to a report released Monday.

The Chinese state-run People’s Daily newspaper reported Wednesday that the nation’s military will reduce its army to under one million troops in an effort to do away with “the old military structure.”

Chinese media reported on Wednesday that President Xi Jinping has announced a major restructuring of the People’s Liberation Army to create what he called a “world-class military.”

The crash of a fighter jet in eastern China on Wednesday will almost certainly be followed by similar accidents as the ­People’s Liberation Army ramps up training to improve combat readiness, military analysts said.

A new recruitment video for China’s People’s Liberation Army is a marked departure from past productions, which China Daily characterized as more staid affairs, with “orchestral melodies” and lyrics “carefully worded to avoid being too aggressive.”

Contents: China sends fighter jets to South China Sea; Readers debate a war between the US and China; Who would win a war between the US and China?

Chinese marines have begun training in the western deserts of Xinjiang, days after China passed legislation that allows its military to be deployed overseas.

Current and former U.S. officials tell The Washington Post that China has cut back on cyber-espionage after the Justice Department indicted five People’s Liberation Army officers in 2014.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has unveiled the most significant changes to his nation’s military in over 60 years, laying out plans to boost combat readiness and make the world’s largest army better equipped to radiate force beyond the country’s borders, according to state-backed news media.

The Wall Street Journal reports on a study from cybersecurity group ThreatConnect and the security consultants at Defense Group, Inc., indicating that China’s military is heavily involved in hacking and cyber crime.

China’s Communist Party People’s Congress recently passed a sweeping national-security law that directs the People’s Liberation Army to expand the military’s offshore presence to protect China’s “overseas interests” and to support counterterrorism at home, according to Xinhua, China’s state-run news agency.

Contents: Indian forces cross Myanmar border to strike at militants; Cross-border raid implications for India with Pakistan and China; Reports of breakthrough in Greece’s debt crisis

Contents: US-China tensions in South China Sea take another step upward; EU rescues 4300 migrants in one day as country quotas are enacted

The Daily Beast reports that China has finally admitted something everyone knew: they have been training cyber-warfare military and intelligence units. The formal concession of this digital warfare program is a big deal, arriving in a government publication produced by the Chinese government only once per decade or so, because they have always preserved a shield of “plausible deniability” for their cyber-war exploits in the past.