Day: July 29, 2025

China has hit out at Japan over its new space defence strategy, calling it a threat to security and stability. Japan unveiled the space defence guidelines in Tokyo on Monday. Its defence ministry cited Chinese and Russian development of military capabilities in space as a reason it was seeking to boost defence in space and cooperation with the United States and other allies. In response, China’s foreign ministry on Tuesday said that in space, Japan, the US and other Western countries continued… South China Morning Post

China’s Type 815A spy ships have become pivotal to People’s Liberation Army naval operations and intelligence gathering, with recent incidents underscoring the vessels’ crucial role in Beijing’s maritime surveillance and power projection. On July 12, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) reported the interception of the Type 815A electronic surveillance ship Tianwangxing (hull number 793) operating about 69 nautical miles (128km) off the western Philippines, within Manila’s exclusive economic… South China Morning Post

The China-EU summit on July 24 confirmed what Beijing and Washington have long surmised: Europe has sidelined itself from great-power competition. After five decades of diplomacy, Brussels and Beijing have never been further apart, exactly as Trump’s wedge intended. Yet the bridge to China wasn’t demolished from abroad. Europe dismantled it, piece by piece, through its own incoherence. Brussels’ only meaningful gain was a marginal agreement on rare earths. The European Union’s other concerns,… South China Morning Post