China’s Liaoning aircraft carrier battle group has conducted its first exercises with live ammunition, the country’s navy said, in a show of strength as tensions with the US and Taiwan escalate. China’s military has carried out its first ever live-fire drills using an aircraft carrier led large –scale…
The US has warned China against “aggressive behavior in the South China Sea,” saying it would not accept Beijing’s control of the region. The warning by Admiral Harry Harris, head of the US Pacific Command, came on Wednesday as tensions between two powers continue to rise. “We will not allow a…
India is all set to test its Agni-V intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), capable of striking even the northern China. The test which is scheduled to happen today, December 14, will be the fourth and the final test of nuclear-capable Agni-V from Wheeler Island off Odisha. “This will be the final test of the…
US President-elect Donald Trump said that the U.S. does not necessarily need to be bound by the ‘one China’ policy, in an interview on the Fox News show “Fox News Sunday.” “I don’t want China dictating to me,” Trump said as he made a vehement defense of his recent phone conversation with…
US President-elect Donald Trump spoke Friday with the president of Taiwan, a break with more than 35 years of U.S. policy that is likely to anger China. A statement from Trump’s transition team said he spoke with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, who offered her congratulations. “During the discussion, they noted…
Seventy-four people have been confirmed dead and another two injured as a platform of a power plant’s cooling tower under construction collapsed in east China’s Jiangxi Province, state-media reported on Friday. Till late last night 68 victims have been identified. Most of them were born after 1980, with the…