The People's Liberation Army is China's unified military force, encompassing army, navy, air force, and missile units under Communist Party control.
LandSpace recovered a rocket booster on land on August 19, the first time a Chinese firm has done so. Foreign Affairs puts Chinese company launches at 92 a year, up from 39 in 2020, against a US that still flies more than twice as many.
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The Pentagon is committing about $350 million to quantum computing aimed at military logistics, advanced materials and next-generation weapons. For vendors, the related money with a stated purpose so far pays to build quantum hardware.
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China's Central Theater Command sent Type 99A tanks and drone units to Tsentr-2026, a Russian drill of more than 47,000 personnel built on Ukraine war lessons. For China-Russia risk pricing, what Beijing's units take home from those lessons matters more than the size of the drill.
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China's PLA opened four new colleges on September 30, one of them teaching drones, autonomous systems and AI-assisted decision-making. The schools around it suggest Beijing now treats unmanned systems as a permanent staffing need inside the army.
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Xi Jinping vowed on Sept. 30 to 'resolutely strike' Taiwan independence forces, hardening the 'oppose' he used at last year's National Day reception. Beijing's work report adopted the same verb in March, so for anyone pricing Taiwan or China risk the speech confirms a six-month-old formula.
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Justice says Chinese state operators laundered intrusions through infected routers and cameras in more than 130 countries since 2018. Source geography has been unreliable for years.
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The Information reports that the Cyberspace Administration has questioned staff at both labs after Anthropic named seven Chinese companies for relaying customer requests through Claude. No penalty has been decided.
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An AVIC institute put a weight and a partly masked power figure on its fighter laser display in Beijing. The display masked the dynamic tracking accuracy, the figure that tells you whether the beam holds on a maneuvering missile.
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A Foreign Affairs essay counts three dozen generals formally purged since 2022 and argues the discipline strengthens the party. The problem it says the method cannot fix is succession, and Xi has named no one.
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Three seized domains and a roughly 390-item indicator list arrive with no named bank victim, so any institution running the listed products has to answer a multi-year exposure question out of whatever logs it happened to keep.
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Foreign Policy's account, built on interviews with more than three dozen current and former US officials, puts the intelligence value of thefts like the 2017 Equifax breach in the analytic work that came after. No contractor is named.
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The Han Kuang exercise closed with mines and barricades at a city crossroads, not on a beach. Anyone modelling Taiwan risk as a blockade should note whose assumptions changed.
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DOJ seized three domains on 26 August 2026 and disabled the QScan and QTRouter platforms. Both were sold as services to MSS and PLA customers, and the only telemetry that ever saw the traffic sat on the backbone.
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The defence ministry would not say what it was testing, so the ground it chose becomes the record: an airport approach road, a subway ride to a fallback headquarters, and what that implies about the fight Taipei expects to have.
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A court order killed two Chinese contractor hacking platforms because their command domains were hard-coded into the malware. The pivot hardware they infected is still nobody's asset.
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Prosecutors say a Nanjing contractor rented IoT botnets and commercial proxies to the MSS and PLA from 2018. No individuals were charged, and the conscripted hardware stays conscripted.
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Reuters reports that Unitree's Go2 descends from openly published, US military-funded locomotion work. Anyone buying legged robots now inherits that dual-use history.
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An audit says the NT$3.55 billion fixed-site network built to guard airbases misses the PLA's 5.1GHz drones. A separate army purchase died after three failed tests.
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