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China: tensions in the Indo-Pacific

10 January 2024

  • The Taiwanese civilians training for a Chinese invasion – video

    Kuo Chiu, known as KC to his friends, teaches urban design at Tunghai University in Taiwan. He’s also one of many of the country's citizens who practises rifle skills in his spare time, in case of a Chinese invasion. The Guardian's video team spent time with KC to see how he is preparing.

5 February 2023

  • Antony Blinken, with the US and South Korean flags in the background

    The Observer view on the real threat behind China’s spy balloon

    Washington and Beijing need to resume talks quickly before the hawks bring the world to war

15 April 2022

  • FOR LONG READ - US CHINA WAR COLLAGE

    How to stop China and the US going to war – podcast

    Armed conflict between the world’s two superpowers, while not yet inevitable, has become a real possibility. The 2020s will be the decade of living dangerously. By Kevin Rudd

14 November 2021

  • Xi Jinping on a TV screen under the slogan "The people's yearning for a better life is the goal we strive for" at the Museum of the Communist Party of China in Beijing.

    Xi Jinping has rewritten China’s history, but even he can’t predict its global future

    Rana Mitter
    The Communist party has anointed him the most powerful leader since Mao, but how will he deal with drying deserts and an ageing society?

10 October 2021

  • China’s president Xi Jinping declares that reunification with Taiwan ‘will be fulfilled’ in Beijing on 9 October.

    The Observer view on Xi Jinping’s increasing threats to Taiwan

    Joe Biden’s wavering over what to do about China’s ambitions are fuelling its president’s dangerous swaggering

6 October 2021

  • Soldiers of Chinese People's Liberation Army

    China could mount full-scale invasion by 2025, Taiwan defence minister says

  • 'We'll abide by the Taiwan agreement' says Biden after Xi call – video

5 October 2021

  • Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen

    Taiwan president warns of ‘catastrophic consequences’ if island falls to China

    Tsai Ing-wen says Taiwan will ‘do whatever it takes to defend itself’ against an increasingly assertive Beijing

29 September 2021

  • A Chinese navy drill in the western Pacific in 2018.

    China’s new aircraft carrier underlines need for the Aukus pact

    Analysis: As the world’s largest navy tries to push it back in the Pacific, the US requires allies in the region

28 September 2021

  • The Australian flag outside the Chinese embassy in Canberra

    Australia must adopt unorthodox options to disrupt China’s grey-zone threats

    Ashley Townshend and Thomas Lonergan
    Joining Aukus sends a clear message but the submarines are years away – in the meantime Canberra must creatively push back against Beijing

24 September 2021

  • Xi Jinping with Joe Biden in 2015 when Biden was vide-president.

    Biden to rally regional support for China containment strategy at Quad summit

    Biden will meet leaders of Australia, India and Japan as he builds a web of alliances to support democracy and deter authoritarianism

23 September 2021

  • A woman wearing a face mask walks by the Microsoft office building

    Experts say China’s low-level cyberwar is becoming severe threat

    Activity more overt and reckless despite US, British and other political efforts to bring it to a halt

22 September 2021

  • Joe Biden and Xi Jinping

    Is China stepping up its ambition to supplant US as top superpower?

  • Members of the public take part in resilience training in Taiwan

    Second line of defence: Taiwan’s civilians train to resist invasion

21 September 2021

  • Demobilized Soldiers Attend Farewell Ceremony In Yulin

    Xi’s army: from ‘hiding and biding’ to building China’s dream

    The combat capability of the People’s Liberation Army may still be a ‘work in progress’ but it is catching up through influence and training

20 September 2021

  • Japan's defence minister, Nobuo Kishi

    Japan urges Europe to speak out against China’s military expansion

    Exclusive: in the first piece in a new Guardian series on China and tensions in the Indo-Pacific, Japan’s defence minister says the international community must bolster deterrence efforts against Beijing’s military
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