In July 2023, Beijing appointed a PLA Navy deputy commander as the Rocket Force's new commander and an Air Force officer as its new political commissar. These appointments likely indicate Xi's ...

Before that, he was the commander of the PLA Rocket Force. Miao’s suspension showed that the drive had expanded to the Political Work Department, which acts as the Communist Party’s eyes and ...

As well as splashing out ever-increasing amounts of cash on the People's Liberation Army (PLA), Chairman Xi Jinping is ...

The warning from Lin Xiangyang, who heads the PLA’s Eastern Theatre Command, came at a symposium ... Taiwan as part of China to be reunited by force if necessary, and this law serves as the ...

Besides the CMC purges, nine senior generals - including past or current top commanders of the PLA Rocket Force, the former air force commander, and a few CMC officials in charge of equipment ...

However, some rocket launcher-related technologies ... and the computing of terminal systems. If the PLA had continued to rely on the previous command hierarchy and force structure to handle ...

The PLA Rocket Force, which oversees the country's conventional ... is the only nuclear command authority. China, frequently criticised by the United States for the opacity of its nuclear build ...

It added that the number of troops in the PLA Navy, PLA Strategic Support Force and the PLA Rocket Force will be increased, while the PLA Air Force 's active service personnel will remain the same.

Chen Daoxiang, the commander of the People’s Liberation ... telling rioters to “stop charging, or we use force”. Concerns over whether the PLA could become involved in maintaining order ...

The PLA Rocket Force, which oversees the country’s conventional ... is the only nuclear command authority. China, which has been frequently criticized by the U.S. for the opacity of its nuclear ...