Topic - People'S Liberation Army

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  Inside the Ring

  Chinese cyberattacks and electronic intrusions into U.S. computer networks in peacetime are part of the preparations for a future high-technology war against the United States, according to the U.S. Pacific Command's new commander.

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  Inside China

  China continues to surge at an unprecedented speed as the world's major contender to dominate space exploration. Last year, China's 19 space launches surpassed the U.S. rate for the first time in history. For 2012, China's government has announced plans to loft 21 spacecraft carrying 30 satellites into orbit, and it has vowed to keep up that pace at least through 2020. That's when China presumably will take over as the leading spacefaring nation, and the only nation remaining with an operating space station.

• Inside the Ring

  CIA Director David H. Petraeus recently replaced the agency's director of support, a senior manager who also runs the agency's massive worldwide logistics, including the security office.

• Inside the Ring

  The Pentagon is investigating the joint avionics venture between General Electric and a Chinese company that was linked in the past to U.S. arms proliferation sanctions.

• Inside China

  The U.S. government recently sold the Chinese a highly sophisticated imaging device used on space telescopes that can be used by China's military for high-tech spying, according to a report in a Chinese newspaper.

• Inside China

  The death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il touched off an instant media frenzy inside China, a state that proudly proclaimed North Korea to be its closest ideological and geopolitical ally.

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  Feds: France hinders probe of satellite technology sale to China

  U.S. lawmakers and Obama administration officials say France has stymied a 3½-year State Department investigation into whether a French defense contractor illegally gave U.S. satellite technology to China.

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  Inside the Ring

  At the recent U.S.-Chinese defense talks in Beijing, the subject of the Pentagon's new Air Sea Battle Concept, a program to counter China's growing anti-access and area denial weapons, was not discussed.

• World Scene

  New gene-assembly technology that offers great benefits for scientific research also could be used by terrorists to create biological weapons, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned Wednesday.

• Inside China

  "There is no international water within the South [China] Sea." So stated the official news outlets of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee, the People's Daily and its subsidiary the Global Times on Monday.

• Inside China

  For the past several months, China's largest naval hospital ship, the 14,000-ton Type 920 vessel Daishandao, also known as "Peace Ark," has taken part in a Beijing charm offensive throughout the Caribbean region, an area traditionally considered the United States' strategic backyard.

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  BLANKLEY: Chapter and verse on China's moral predations

  A just-released book, "Bowing to Beijing" by Brett M. Decker and William C. Triplett II, will change forever the way you think about China - even if, like me, you already have the deepest worries about the Chinese threat. As I opened the book, I was expecting to find many useful examples of Chinese military and industrial efforts to get the better of the United States and the West.

• Inside China

  An inflammatory commentary published in China on Tuesday calls for Beijing to challenge U.S. "hegemony."

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  Chinese telecom firm tied to spy ministry

  A U.S. intelligence report for the first time links China's largest telecommunications company to Beijing's KGB-like intelligence service and says the company recently received nearly a quarter-billion dollars from the Chinese government.

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  Arms sale to Taiwan may fray China ties

  The Pentagon is bracing for some cutbacks in military and other cooperation efforts with China as a result of a new arms package for Taiwan, expected to be announced formally this week.

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