Tag: #People’s Liberation Army (PLA)

China’s 2nd aircraft carrier group holds 1st drill in 2021 in S.China Sea, ‘training for combat preparedness’

Liu Xuanzun May 04, 2021

China’s 2nd aircraft carrier group holds 1st drill in 2021 in S.China Sea, ‘training for combat preparedness’

An aircraft carrier group led by China’s second aircraft carrier, the Shandong, is conducting a series of exercises in the South China Sea in its first known voyage of the year, almost immediately after the country’s first carrier, the Liaoning, left the region, and Chinese analysts said on...More

PLA prepared as US, secessionists provoke

Liu Xuanzun April 13, 2021

PLA prepared as US, secessionists provoke

Multiple branches of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) are continuing large-scale military exercises near the island of Taiwan, at a time when Taiwan secessionists insisted on making provocative statements and holding drills, and the US sent a warship through the Taiwan Straits on Wednesday and voiced support...More

PLA’s largest near-Taiwan exercise features bombers to island’s east, ‘blocks foreign interventions’

Liu Xuanzun March 29, 2021

PLA’s largest near-Taiwan exercise features bombers to island’s east, ‘blocks foreign interventions’

The warplane exercise by the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) near the island of Taiwan on Friday is not only the largest since the PLA started routine exercises in the region last year, but also a rare one that saw bombers flying to the eastern side of the...More

PLA deploys VR tech for more efficient training

Liu Xuanzun March 27, 2021

PLA deploys VR tech for more efficient training

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has started to use virtual reality (VR) technologies in training as it allows officers and soldiers to gain enhanced combat capability more efficiently, analysts said on Monday. A logistics support unit affiliated with the PLA Northern Theater Command Navy recently held a wartime...More

China holds naval drills in three maritime areas amid US military threats

Liu Xuanzun March 16, 2021

China holds naval drills in three maritime areas amid US military threats

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) recently held combat-oriented naval exercises featuring different types of warships in three major sea areas, at a time when the US secretary of defense is rallying allies in the region and attempting to foster "credible deterrence" against China. The PLA Northern, Eastern...More

PLA Xinjiang Military Command commissions first Type 15 light tanks

Liu Xuanzun February 04, 2021

PLA Xinjiang Military Command commissions first Type 15 light tanks

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Xinjiang Military Command recently received delivery of and commissioned its first batch of China's newly developed Type 15 light tanks, which excels at rapid reaction combat in plateau regions, a Chinese expert said on Monday. With the commissioning, both Xinjiang and Tibet...More

China can powerfully counter US threats in first, second island chains

Wei Dongxu September 25, 2020

China can powerfully counter US threats in first, second island chains

A viral video of an H-6K bomber released by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force on Saturday has made headlines in many Western media outlets. They allege that the video shows "simulated attack on a US Air Force base on Guam." This is over-interpretation. The video actually...More

Chinese H-6J bomber’s S. China Sea deployment ‘to suppress US provocations’

Liu Xuanzun August 14, 2020

Chinese H-6J bomber’s S. China Sea deployment ‘to suppress US provocations’

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy's newly revealed bomber, the H-6J, was recently deployed on Yongxing Island in the South China Sea for the first time, foreign media reported on Wednesday. The move will enable the PLA to suppress and jam provocative US military activities in the...More

PLA’s ‘unprecedented drills’ in Taiwan Straits for deterrence, actual combat: observers

GT Staff Reporters August 14, 2020

PLA’s ‘unprecedented drills’ in Taiwan Straits for deterrence, actual combat: observers

Beijing. The Chinese mainland openly warned Taiwan secessionists by conducting massive military drills in the Taiwan Straits on Thursday. Chinese experts said this is a clear and unprecedented deterrence toward secessionists of the island as well as the US, as the Trump administration has increased its links with...More

PLA drills a warning to ‘Taiwan secession’ forces

Left Review Online August 14, 2020

PLA drills a warning to ‘Taiwan secession’ forces

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theater Command on Thursday announced that it held consecutive live-fire drills in the Taiwan Straits and its northern and southern ends. It said that "a certain major country" has been continuously making negative moves on the Taiwan question, which has sent...More

China to hold largest military parade in two decades to celebrate 70th anniversary of PRC’s founding

Cao Siqi for Global Times September 01, 2019

China to hold largest military parade in two decades to celebrate 70th anniversary of PRC’s founding

Beijing. China will hold a grand military parade, the largest in two decades, on October 1 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC), and some advanced domestically made weapons will debut. The scale of this year's military parade will exceed...More