TOKYO (AP) — Japan and Australia urged calm on Sunday after Chinese military aircraft locked radar on Japanese fighter jets, a month after the Japanese leader’s recent remarks on Taiwan that stirred tensions between Tokyo and Beijing.

Chinese officials took issue with Japan’s claim. Wang Xuemeng, a spokesman for the Chinese Navy, said in a statement that the Liaoning was carrying out “routine carrier-based fighter jet flight training” that had been announced in advance.

The $13bn (£9.75bn) vessel, which entered service in 2022 after years of delays, is vulnerable to attacks from diesel-electric submarines and China’s arsenal of some 600 hypersonic missiles, capable of travelling at five times the speed of sound.

Showcased by China's People's Liberation Army, the robot can match every move of soldiers using artificial intelligence power.

A leaked Pentagon assessment says China could overwhelm US forces in a Taiwan war, destroying carriers and crippling key military systems.

The Chinese crew suffered shortness of breath and headaches. Altitude sickness was so severe that some had to be hooked up to intravenous drips.The workers were building an airport 14,100 feet above sea level near the town of Tingri,

Japan has scrambled jets to monitor Russian and Chinese air forces conducting joint patrols around the country, the Japanese defense ministry said late Tuesday, amid rising tensions between Tokyo and Beijing.

While diplomatic tensions between the two countries are not new, both have little to gain from the current dispute subsiding.

The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies said on Tuesday that it observed new facilities on China's so-called big-three island outposts in the Spratly Islands: Fiery Cross Reef, Mischief Reef and Subi Reef.

Two weeks after she asserted that a military threat to Taiwan would spur military intervention by Japan, commentators continue to ask themselves what on

Believing that the PLA will not use the world’s most powerful AI chips to advance its military capabilities is unrealistic.

The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) and China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) are holding their seventh bilateral exercise, codenamed Exercise Cooperation, in Singapore from Dec 10 to 17. In a news release on Wednesday (Dec 10),