Tag: China

The death of the soldiers, the youngest of whom was 19, came as China and India fought in the Galwan Valley on June 15, 2020 over a de facto border.

Chinese and Indian forces will stand down along the hotly disputed Himalayan border region that saw outbreaks of violence in recent months.

A Japanese submarine — the Soryu — collided with a Chinese freighter. While the damage wasn’t critical, the temporary loss of a vessel was.

This Week on SOFREP: A military-wide search for extremism, China’s Cold War games, and insights into new findings about COVID-19 testing.

China’s antics in the South China Sea are not new, but a form of Soviet Cold War tactics aimed at misdirection and the spread of propaganda.

“Putin has outplayed us. He has played the great game better than anyone on the world stage,” McRaven said, calling the Russian president “dangerous.”

The PLA activities highlighted here are the latest in a string of aggressive and destabilizing actions,” a US military spokesman said.

This week on SOFREP: Biden’s military agenda, China’s saber rattling, and a first-hand account of the secret CIA mission to find bin Laden.

China is huffing and puffing threats about invading Taiwan. But the very fact that they’re rattling the saber shows how idle the threat is.

As America faces the Great Power Struggle, Secretary of Defense nominee Lloyd Austin will face a struggle to fund it.

The FBI’s investigation found that Chen was working with the Chinese communist government dating back to 2012 “at our country’s expense.”

Veteran diplomat Bill Burns has been tapped for CIA Director. How will his appointment affect the agency — and foreign policy — under Biden?