China currently has one aircraft carrier in service – the Liaoning, commissioned in 2012 – and the Type 001A, the first carrier built in the country, which is still being tested.
The revelation comes three days after Rawat's admission that though the Chinese have retracted from Doklam, the troops are there in northern Doklam area.
Chinese state media today said that the Indian Army “needs to tone down its hawkish rhetoric”, and that India is “diplomatically immature”.
The Chinese and Indian troops have now been locked in a stalemate – this time in Arunachal Pradesh’s Upper Siang district – for close to a week now.
China's next-generation multi-nuclear warhead intercontinental ballistic missile with a proclaimed ability to hit targets "anywhere in the world" may be inducted into the PLA early next year
The missile which underwent another test -- the eighth since it was first announced in 2012 -- could be in the People Liberation Army's line-up as early as the first half of 2018, state-run Global Times said.
Xi Jinping said that "a military is built to fight" stressing combat capability as the criterion to meet.
A video tweeted from the official Twitter handle of Defence Minister’s office shows Sitharaman interacting with a Chinese officer who introduces her to his colleagues
Putting an end to the over two-month-long military standoff at Doklam, India and China on Monday agreed for “expeditious disengagement” of border personnel at the face-off site
President Xi Jinping today said China will never compromise on its sovereignty and security and its Army has the confidence to defeat "all invasions"
President Xi also said that the People's Liberation Army should strictly follow the absolute leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and "march to wherever the Party points to."
Chinese media’s reports are being viewed as Beijing’s strategy to put psychological pressure on India to withdraw its troops from the Doklam Plateau
Amid the ongoing standoff between Indian and Chinese troops in the Doklam area, reports have suggested that China may have quietly moved “tend of thousands of tonnes” of military equipment, including army vehicles and troops, to Tibet
Notably, PLA’s Tibet Military Command, which conducted the drills, guards the Line of Actual Control (LAC) of the India-China border along several sections connecting the mountainous Tibetan region
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) will increase the numbers of other services, including navy and missile forces after downsizing its army.
The Chinese state media have carried a barrage of critical articles on the Doklam standoff criticising India, but this was the first time Pakistan and Kashmir have been brought into the narrative
India and China have been engaged in a standoff in the Dokalam area near the Bhutan trijunction for the past 19 days after a Chinese Army's construction party came to build a road.
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