China is closing the missile-tube gap with the US Navy as the latter's long-standing edge in vertical-launching-system cell capacity, one indicator of naval strength, shrinks. The People's ...

Since 2022, China has been funding the renovation of the Ream naval base, some 30 kilometres (20 miles) from Sihanoukville, which was originally built partly using US funds. Washington has said ...

China's Navy has significantly closed the gap with its U.S. counterpart in vertical launch system (VLS) missile cells, now boasting more than half the U.S. Navy's total, according to the ...

US warship docks in Cambodia amid China naval base concerns (Pictur credit: AP) The US embassy posted a statement on social media on Monday saying the combat ship is on a "goodwill visit" that ...

TAIPEI: China is deploying its largest navy fleet in regional waters in nearly three decades, posing a threat to Taiwan that is more pronounced than previous Chinese war games, the Taiwanese ...

Amid the hysteria over unknown drone swarms sweeping the U.S. mid-Atlantic, a massive and very unusual Chinese naval operation was ... The PLA (China Communist Party’s military) will decide ...

But China's ships now have half as many vertical-launch-system cells as the US, research found. VLS capacity is important for naval combat, but it's not everything. China is closing the missile ...

Those who disagree with my assessment will point to the fact that China’s Navy is relatively untested in combat. Indeed, they are. So, too, was the U.S. Navy heading into the Second World War.

China staged three days of... This map illustrates the locations of five Taiwanese and five Chinese navy vessels as seen in satellite photographs captured on December 10, 2024, by the European ...