China has reportedly announced that it has been outdone by US technology. This implication came from the statement that it can only respond to the US “freedom of navigation” exercises by sending nuclear subs to the South China Sea. While… Read More ›

Month: May 2016
China to send nuclear-armed submarines into Pacific amid tensions with US
The Chinese military is poised to send submarines armed with nuclear missiles into the Pacific Ocean for the first time, arguing that new US weapons systems have so undermined Beijing’s existing deterrent force that it has been left with no… Read More ›
Cadence of Conflict: Asia, May 23, 2016
Taiwan has a new president. Security is a hot topic. New leaders bring change. Change can be unstable. As a general rule, web and program developers don’t like software “updates” because they can cause other dependent software to crash. In… Read More ›
China is setting the stage for war in the South China Sea
All any nation needs to go to war is a good provocation, and China is no exception. With its sweeping territorial claims, island-building, militarisation, patriotic fervour, and prickly rhetoric, Beijing is setting itself up to be repeatedly provoked in the… Read More ›
Cadence of Conflict: Asia, May 16, 2016
China and the US rattled sabers over Taiwan. Arguably, they smacked sheathed sabers. A US Navy ship, USS William P. Lawrence, sailed past one of China’s military-stocked man-made islands with two Chinese jet escorts chasing it away. Chinese and Washington… Read More ›
Chinese spy posing as interpreter tried to board carriage carrying Queen Elizabeth II
A Chinese ‘spy’ tried to get into the Queen’s carriage with her during last year’s state visit. Lucy D’Orsi, who was in charge of security for President Xi Jinping’s visit in October, was filmed by the Monarch’s official cameraman saying:… Read More ›
Cadence of Conflict: Asia, May 9, 2016
China is angry. It’s always easy to tell when someone makes lightly veiled threats in the forms of “advice” or “caution”. These comments came from a Chinese diplomat, that pressure in the South China Sea could “rebound” like a “coiled… Read More ›
Russia reports that thousands of Chinese troops are to enter ISIS war
The Kremlin have announced that China are to send 5,000 of its most elite military forces into the Levant War Zone to help Russia in the fight against ISIS, which has left the Obama administration and the Pentagon “horrified”. The “Siberian Tiger” Special Forces and… Read More ›
Cadence of Conflict: Asia, May 2, 2016
Last week’s unreported US military exercises in Taiwan’s southern city of Kaohsiung, along with the neighboring indictment of the minority party’s legislative control through vote-buying, no doubt sends an unreported message to Beijing. What we see in the headlines more… Read More ›