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China leads research in 19 of 23 technologies set as priorities by the AUKUS defence partnership of Australia, Britain and the U.S., including hypersonics, electronic warfare and undersea drones, highlighting the need for Western allies to pool research results, an Australian security think-tank says.

China’s new defence minister has used his first major speech to take aim at the US for intensifying an arms race in Asia, but warned that a war between the world’s two superpowers would be an “unbearable disaster”.

For the past 34 years, the height of “politically sensitive periods” for the Chinese government invariably falls around the same day: June 4, the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing. And, as use of the internet has become increasingly ubiquitous in China, online surveillance and censorship go into…

Intense footage released by the US military shows an abrupt crossing by a Chinese navy ship in front of an American destroyer, in an action that the Pentagon said 'violated maritime rules of safe passage'

Annual vigil replaced by pro-Beijing carnival but some still manage to mark massacre amid heavy police presence

The United States and China have sent warships to the multinational naval drills that began in Indonesia on Monday, despite the rifts between the two powers.

The US Navy releases a video showing Chinese warship nearly hit US destroyer in the Taiwan Strait on the weekend.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has discussed upgrading partnership with India, a major arms buyer, as both countries grapple with China’s economic rise and increased belligerence

A senior U.S. diplomat held candid and productive talks on Monday with Chinese officials, the State Department said, despite some criticism that his visit to China coincided with the anniversary of Beijing's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.

While some countries turn marriage into a patriotic act, it might just give us a radical new way to live our lives, says academic Devorah Baum

The United States military has released video of what it called an “unsafe” Chinese maneuver in the Taiwan Strait on the weekend, in which a Chinese navy ship cut sharply across the path of an American destroyer, forcing the U.S. ship to slow to avoid a collision