That is certainly the takeaway from the recent news cycle, which has identified an increase in Chinese military spending at the People's Congress and a decline in U.S. military spending due to the "sequester." But what are the broader trends and implications of these shifts in military resource allocation?

BEIJING — China's government promised its people Tuesday deficit-fueled spending to fight deep-seated corruption, improve the despoiled environm...

BEIJING -- China has begun flight training on its first aircraft carrier, with photographs posted on websites Monday showing navy pilots practicing to...

BEIJING — China formally entered its first aircraft carrier into service on Tuesday, underscoring its ambitions to be a leading Asian naval powe...

China's bark is worse than its bite. In the end, how China behaves in the 21st century has a lot to do with the West. Geopolitical "harmony" is as much our choice as theirs.

WASHINGTON -- New talks this week between American and Chinese military leaders got stuck on the issue of Taiwan, the same problem that torpedoed U.S....

Revisiting my previous post "Aircraft Carriers and Chinese Missiles: Time to Rethink US Naval Doctrine" , I would like to approach the issue from a di...

For all the talk of the Chinese economic miracle, its economic star may be on the wane. Henry Kissinger dismissed the idea of the US being eclipsed by China as the world's superpower.

Maybe my question, "Is Hu Jintao really the most powerful person in the world?" was the wrong one to ask. Today, with reports that his military may ha...

BEIJING — China is investigating four Japanese suspected of illegally filming military targets and entering a military zone without authorizatio...

WASHINGTON — China's drive to transform itself into a major military power is being pursued in a secretive manner that increases the potential for m...

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