Senior Colonel Tian Junli, a spokesperson for the PLA Southern Theater Command, stated the PLA Southern Theater Command conducted routine patrols in the South China Sea waters on Friday.

A submarine attached to a submarine flotilla with the navy under the Chinese PLA Northern Theater Command steams towards the designated area during a recent maritime training exercise.

Japan’s launch of a permanent Joint Operations Command clearly signals a stronger offensive capacity and deeper defence ties with the US, China’s military mouthpiece said on Wednesday.

It is possible the deployment also exercised PLA theater-level assets and coordination at Southern Theater Command headquarters in Guangzhou. Previous iterations of Zhanlan included a “high ...

Earlier this month, the general hospital of the PLA Central Theatre Command announced that it had authorised "embedded deployment" of DeepSeek's R1-70B LLM, saying it could provide treatment plan ...

The “combat readiness patrol and joint exercise” drill was carried out “in recent days” by the naval and air forces of the PLA’s Eastern Theatre Command, which oversees the Taiwan Strait ...

but in times of war – and when involved in war-related operations – the PLA holds command-and-control (C2) over the CCG through the relevant Theater Command, by-passing the PAP. Organisations ...

Senior Colonel Wu Qian told reporters at a news conference in Beijing on Thursday afternoon that the PLA Eastern Theater Command recently organized its naval and air forces to carry out combat ...

Wu noted that the recent drill of the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) in areas around Taiwan was a legitimate and necessary measure, serving as both ...

A spokesman for the Southern Theatre Command of the People's Liberation Army said on Saturday that the Philippines frequently enlisted foreign countries to organize "joint patrols" and "disseminated ...