CHINA PARTY FILLS TOP MILITARY POSTS. The WSJ reports that China’s Communist Party concluded a generational shake-up of its military top brass Sunday when state media announced the appointment of an army general and a former air-force commander as vice chairman of its Central Military Commission. Fr...
STATE MEDIA: NEW CHINA STEALTH FIGHTER IN TEST FLIGHT. According to the AFP and Defense News, China’s second stealth fighter has made its first test flight. From the piece: “The J-31, the second stealth plane to be unveiled by China in less than two years, flew for 11 minutes on the morning of Oct. ...
CHINA AND JAPAN LOOKING TO THE U.S. ON DISPUTED ISLANDS. According to the Washington Post, as China and Japan continue to wrangle over a chain of uninhabited islands that have sparked protests in both countries, near-miss naval incidents, and lots of tough words, diplomats from both nations are incr...
