Arms Race

September’s launch of a long-range ICBM in the Pacific—China’s first such test in decades—evaluated the missile’s capabilities and sent a political message.

‘Kiribati does not welcome China’s recent ICBM test,’ the island nation’s Presidential Office said.

‘This recent activity demonstrates the increased interest in the Arctic by our strategic competitors,’ a senior U.S. military official said.

The development of AI weapons may be equivalent to the nuclear revolution, according to Bradley Thayer, a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy.

“The CCP often uses reverse engineering, and their innovation is limited,” a Taiwanese military expert said.

Communist China is pushing forward in military AI development as the United States has yet to adopt a whole-of-government policy framework for AI.

China’s ambitions with regard to the moon are also among Space Command’s concerns.

‘We need to be strong ... strong means having the capacity to fight the war and overmatch your adversary.’

The Pentagon warned Congress last year that China already “has the world’s leading hypersonic arsenal.”

From joint exercises to defense drills, hypersonic missiles to high-tech outreach, countering China’s ‘dangerous path.’

Europe made a mistake by relying on Russian oil and gas, and the mistake cannot be repeated with China, the NATO chief said.

The updated export restrictions were to take effect on Nov. 16.

Federal prosecutors arrested two Navy sailors on Aug. 3, accusing them of passing along sensitive military information to China and undermining U.S. national security.

The death of two high-rank Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials has been revealed by Chinese media in recent days, after months of their passing. Observers believe the cover up of their death and delayed announcement, accompanied by the recent mysterious removal of CCP’s foreign minister who has been missing for more than a month, indicate that the intensified power struggles within the CCP has reached another level.