Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com The most recent round of promotions of full generals not only says much about high-level personnel movements in the defense establishment but also the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership’s top priority of upholding stability within the nation. Six senior People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officers were made generals on […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com A series of naval exercises involving troops from China, Russia, South Korea, the U.S. and the Philippines are likely to significantly raise tensions in the Asia-Pacific. The largest China-Russian naval war game since 2005 is scheduled to start next week in waters very close to South Korea and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com East-Asia-Intel.com Few key military leaders believed to have been friends or allies of disgraced Party strongman Bo Xilai have expressed enthusiastic support for his ouster. This indicates that Hu Jintao, China’s current supreme leader, may have encountered oblique resistance to the purge. Typically, after civilian leaders have been purged, it is not […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Gen. Zhang Qinsheng figures in all Western military analysts’ lists for up-and-coming People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officers who will likely receive a big promotion at the 18th Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Congress slated for this October. Zhang, 63, who is first deputy chief of the General Staff Department […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Geostrategy-Direct.com Chinese military groups and universities have been linked to pervasive Chinese cyber espionage and technology acquisition efforts, according to U.S. intelligence officials. The Obama administration is preparing to confront China more directly on the cyber attacks, the Wall Street Journal reported Dec. 13. Two weeks ago, U.S. officials warned their counterparts […]
By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Relations between Asia’s two biggest countries seem to be taking a confrontational turn on multiple fronts. On Sunday, the Japanese coast guard arrested the captain of a fishing vessel that had ventured into Japan’s territorial waters near the southwestern port of Nagasaki. While the skipper was released several days later after […]