Chinese banks extended 5.13 trillion yuan ($706.40 billion) in new yuan loans in January, up sharply from December, outpacing ...

New bank lending totalled 18.09 trillion yuan last year, down from a record 22.75 trillion yuan in 2023 and hitting the ...

NEW DELHI, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- A paramilitary trooper belonging to the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) killed his two colleagues and wounded eight others before taking his own life inside a ...

The Philippines awaits the first of 10 ships it ordered from South Korea as Manila's military chief touts the idea of buying subs.

China is building a new military command centre near Beijing that is 10 times the size of the Pentagon, US intelligence officials have said. Satellite images of the base, about 20 miles south-west ...

Participants simulated Taiwan’s response to a major military attack by China, supported by Iran, North Korea, and Russia, accompanied by high-intensity gray-zone coercion tactics including the ...

When Peter Dutton was asked this week whether a Coalition government would continue to foster trade relations with China, he declared unequivocally that "the relationship with China will be much ...

One characteristic of a rule by an authoritarian who takes over a democracy is his use of unofficial civilian paramilitary groups. Militia gangs to terrorize or even kill political opponents.

Countries without any paramilitary forces were excluded ... from disputes in the South China Sea to the contested borders in South Asia. Outside of its troops, Bahrain also has a total of 120 ...

His focus is on East Asian politics. He has covered foreign policy and defense matters, especially in relation to U.S.-China ties and cross-strait relations between China and Taiwan. John joined ...

But there’s a twist: China has already turned this idea into reality, and test flights suggest its drones could accomplish much more than the Pentagon has envisioned for its own. With help from ...