Day: August 8, 2025

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Beijing has protested against the Philippine president’s remarks during a visit to India about a possible conflict in the Taiwan Strait, warning Manila on Friday to stop “playing with fire”. Advertisement In an interview with Indian media outlet Firstpost, published on Wednesday, President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr said that his country would “have to get involved”. “To be very practical about it, if there is confrontation over Taiwan between China and the United States, there is no way that the Philippines can stay out of it simply because of our physical,…

The People’s Liberation Army must measure itself against the world’s strongest military, a clear reference to the US, in its drive to win the global contest, according to an official policy commentary detailing the PLA’s goals by 2049. Advertisement The article published on Thursday in the People’s Daily is one of the clearest explanations of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s goal of “building a world-class military by the middle of this century”. It said “world-class” was defined by global top-tier indicators and China aimed to dominate the central stage of military…