2012-02-29 (China Military News cited from SPACE.com and by Mike Wall) --The rise of China's space program may pose a potentially serious military threat to the United States down the road, top American intelligence officials contend.
China continues to develop technology designed to destroy or disable satellites, which makes the United States ... READ MORE

2012-02-29 (China Military News cited from AP) -- Taiwan's defense ministry said Wednesday that an air force officer has been detained on suspicion of passing military secrets to China, the latest case involving the transmission of classified information from the democratic island to the communist mainland.
Taiwan and China split after ... READ MORE

2012-02-29 (China Military News cited from Reuters) -- China's military build-up looks likely to continue "unabated" and independent of recent U.S. moves to reposition forces in Asia, the U.S. military commander for the Asia-Pacific region said on Tuesday.
Admiral Robert Willard, head of U.S. Pacific Command, said Washington's policy of rebalancing ... READ MORE

2012-02-29 (China Military News cited from wsws.org and by Oliver Campbell) -- A front page article in the Australian Financial Review on February 22 reported that the US ambassador in Canberra, Jeffrey Bleich, has floated the possibility of Washington selling or leasing nuclear submarines to Australia—a first for any country.
While ... READ MORE

2012-02-29 (China Military News cited from AP and by ERIC TALMADGE) -- As a sleek black U-2 roared back from a mission, Pontiac muscle cars zoomed along the runway to help it touch down using a low-tech method dating back more than half a century to when this Cold War-era aircraft ... READ MORE

2012-02-29 (China Military News cited from Xinhua) -- The 11th group of Chinese navy escort ships left a port in Qingdao, a city in east China’s Shandong province, on Tuesday for an escort mission on the Gulf of Aden and Somali waters.
The new fleet, including the destroyer Qingdao, the frigate ... READ MORE

2012-02-28 (China Military News cited from Reuters and by Randy Fabi and Manuel Mogato) -- When Lieutenant-General Juancho Sabban received an urgent phone call from an oil company saying two Chinese vessels were threatening to ram their survey ship, the Philippine commander's message was clear: don't move, we will come ... READ MORE

2012-02-28 (China Military News cited frombbc.co.uk) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has called for more co-ordination between military and economic development, national Chinese newspapers report on Tuesday.
Mr Wen urged more support for military development as well as better integration with the economy, technology and education, says the Xinhua News Agency ... READ MORE

2012-02-28 (China Military News cited from flightglobal.com and by Vladimir Karnozov) -- China has asked Russia to supply it with Sukhoi Su-35 fighters and Almaz-Antei S-400 Triumph long-range air defence systems.
The Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper quoted Alexander Fomin, deputy head of Russia's Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, as saying that Beijing filed ... READ MORE