The University of Montreal (UdeM) says two 2019 memorandums of understanding (MOUs) it signed with a China-based educational institution linked to the Chinese military never moved forward to begin actual work. The China-based school, the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), is on the U.S. Commerce Department’s Entity List, added “for acquiring and attempting to acquire U.S.-origin items…

At the latest Chinese Communist Party rubber stamp legislature conference, regime leader Xi Jinping said to build, strengthen, and govern the army using the law and to use the law to strengthen China’s military engagements with foreign countries, improve the rule of law in national defense and military construction, and provide strong legal grounds for…

Analysis Corruption is a widespread phenomenon in China’s military where officers, including generals, have relied not on their duration of service or military prowess to rise in the ranks but rather bribery and connections. Experts commented that a lack of competent leaders now threaten to be severely detrimental to China’s warfighting capabilities. In the Chinese…

It took three weeks for Chinese state media to report on the death of a senior general of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Zhang Xudong, former chief of the PLA’s Western Theater Command, died from illness in Beijing on Oct. 1, according to state media Xinhua News Agency on Oct. 21. He was reportedly 58…

TOKYO—Japan and Indonesia pledged on Tuesday to tighten security ties and signed a deal to facilitate transfers of defense equipment and technology, as their near neighbor China expands its economic and military might. China’s territorial claims in the East and South China seas have become a priority issue in an increasingly testy Sino-U.S. relationship and…

Adm. Charles Richard, the Chief of the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM), said on Tuesday that a planned modernization program for the U.S. nuclear arsenal would compel a re-examination of the nuclear strategy. The Admiral’s comments were made after reports said a Biden administration may cut a $1.2 trillion nuclear-modernization plan. “Basically, it’s going to drive you…