Special to WorldTribune.com East-Asia-Intel.com Chinese government sources are feverishly dismissing news account that at least two of its PLA pilots were killed on the deck of the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning while test flying carrier-capable combat aircraft. China’s sensitivity and nervousness is understandable because nearly two years after its launch, China’s first aircraft carrier, the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com East-Asia-Intel.com For the first time, all of the PLA Navy’s three gigantic Type 071 Amphibious Transport Dock vessels were deployed last week in a large naval exercise in the tense South China Sea, simulating in full an island-taking assault. Also participating in the drill were PLAN’s destroyers, frigates, military helicopters and possibly […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com TACLOBAN, Philippines — The great game for power and influence in Asia laps up on the storm-ravaged shores of this devastated city in the form of a Chinese vessel known as the Peace Ark, with 100 doctors and nurses on board and 300 beds for patients in need […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com China has moved to accept more legal North Korean workers while searching for and kicking out illegal border crossers in a bid to “purify” its northeastern border — an area in which many North Korean refugees are hiding, creating a long-standing diplomatic headache for Beijing. China has started […]