Subscribe for ads-free reading Last week, Xu Qiliang, the vice chairman of China’s powerful Central Military Commission, hosted Afghanistan’s minister of defense, Tariq Shah Bahrami, in Beijing. The meeting underlined the increasingly close military-to-military ties between the two countries. According to Chinese state media, Xu undelined Afghanistan’s friendship with China and noted that “in rece
Subscribe for ads-free reading Is the Chinese People’s Liberation Army conducting patrols in Afghanistan? Earlier this month, Franz J. Marty, over at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, wrote that “overwhelming evidence,” including “photographs, an eyewitness account and several confirming statements of diplomats and observers, among them a Chinese official familiar with the matter,” suggested th
Subscribe for ads-free reading In late December, China’s hosting of a trilateral meeting with the foreign ministers of Afghanistan and Pakistan drew headlines. “China Steps Up to Broker Peace in Afghan-Pakistan Conflict,” Bloomberg reported; “China can help bring peace to Afghanistan,” the South China Morning Post declared. Reuters highlighted China’s announcement that Afghanistan would be include
A recent interaction by the two sides spotlighted the ongoing activity in the defense relationship. This week, an Indian naval ship paid a port visit to the Vietnamese city of Ho Chi Minh city. While this is just one of a series of scheduled defense engagements by the two sides expected this year, it has nonetheless once again put the spotlight on the growing security ties between the two Asian po
As India gears up for the largest democratic exercise on the planet, what are the prospects for 5 more years of Modi? Subscribe for ads-free reading Five hundred and fifty million – that is roughly how many people went to the polls for India’s last general election in 2014. The process was conducted in cycles covering different regions of the country and took a little over a month to complete. On
North Korean production of at least one Hwasong-15 ICBM has been detected by U.S. intelligence agencies. Subscribe for ads-free reading North Korea is continuing production of intercontinental-range ballistic missiles (ICBMs) at a known missile manufacturing site, U.S. officials with knowledge of the latest classified intelligence of North Korea’s weapons programs confirmed to The Diplomat. The ne
In this May 10, 2016, file photo, parade participants march with a model of the Unha space launch vehicle at the Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea. Credit: AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited a known site for missile research and development in December 2017, likely to provide guidance on an anticipated satellite launch in 2018, The Diplomat has learned. A
The recent controversies should be viewed in light of South Korea’s long bipartisan history of censorship. A controversy erupted earlier this week over the ostensibly liberal South Korean government’s decision to cut off funding for the U.S.-Korea Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Critics, including the Institute’s chairman, former ambassador Robert Gallucci,
What happens when a North Korean ballistic missile test fails in flight and explodes in a populated area? On April 28, 2017, North Korea launched a single Hwasong-12/KN17 intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) from Pukchang Airfield in South Pyongan Province (the Korean People’s Army’s Air and Anti-Air Force Unit 447 in Ryongak-dong, Sunchon City, to be more precise). That missile failed shor
Asia’s Year of the Rooster has seen plenty of drama around the region, with some (politically) crowing louder than others. In the spirit of the festive season, Pacific Money hands out some gifts to the winners and losers of 2017. Lenin power prize: Xi Jinping A prizewinner for the second straight year, Chinese President Xi Jinping successfully cemented his hold on power at the Communist Party’s 19
North Korean scientists tested a new solid fuel engine on October 2017. What system is it destined for? North Korean ballistic missile scientists carried out a static test of a new type of solid-fuel engine early last week, a U.S. government source with knowledge of North Korea’s ballistic missile programs told The Diplomat. According to the source, the test took place at North Korea’s solid-fuel
Keel-laying ceremony of South Korea’s first KSS-III (aka Jangbogo-III) submarine on May 17, 2016. Credit: DSME South Korea will develop a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) fitted on the KSS-III (aka Jangbogo-III), the Republic of Korea Navy’s largest and latest attack submarine class currently under construction, Korea JoongAng Daily reports, based on information provided by a high-ranki
Less than a month after UN Security Council adopted new sanctions against North Korea and just eight days after the New York Times featured an analysis claiming that Pyongyang had sourced the engines for its new liquid-fueled intercontinental-range ballistic missiles (ICBM) in the former Soviet Union (it likely did not), North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited a chemical materials institute. Offic
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