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China’s arms export ambitions remain constrained despite decades of investment, with Pakistan as its overwhelmingly dominant client. While Beijing ranks among the top five global arms sellers, its weapons remain largely untested in modern warfare, limiting credibility compared to Western rivals.China has invested heavily in its defence industry, building advanced technology and offering low-cost systems with few political conditions. Yet its share of global arms exports has grown only modestly. The lack of combat testing is a major handicap. Unlike the United States, Russia, or France, China has not fought a major war in nearly fifty years, leaving its equipment…

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China has announced sweeping export controls targeting ten American companies involved in defence and rare earths mining.The decision was unveiled by Beijing’s commerce ministry as a direct response to Washington’s recent expansion of its blacklist of Chinese firms accused of aiding the People’s Liberation Army.The announcement comes just a month after President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing, where he met Xi Jinping in an effort to stabilise relations. Despite pledges to reduce tariffs, tensions have escalated as both sides continue to restrict each other’s access to critical technologies and defence sectors.Washington’s updated blacklist included eighty companies and subsidiaries, among them…

Top Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees warned acting spy chief Bill Pulte on Monday not to use his temporary post to make major changes at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, citing concerns that he could pursue sweeping personnel cuts or politically motivated declassification decisions before a Senate-confirmed director is in place.In a June 22 letter to Pulte, Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Pulte should not take actions “more appropriately left to a Senate-confirmed Director”…

“A close neighbor is better than a distant relative,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Nepali counterpart Shisir Khanal during their recent meeting in Beijing. Although Wang named no country, given the context in which he made the statement, the top Chinese diplomat could not have been more direct: he was talking about China (the “close neighbor”) and the U.S. (the “distant relative”). The Nepali foreign minister was in Beijing to reassure the Chinese that Nepali soil would not be used for anti-China activities. In recent times, Chinese officials have repeatedly voiced their discontent with what they see as…

The U.S. military has confirmed a lethal strike on a suspected drug trafficking vessel in the Caribbean Sea, killing two men and leaving six survivors.This marks part of a broader campaign that has now exceeded 60 strikes since September 2025, with over 210 fatalities reported. Rights groups have condemned the operations as extrajudicial killings, while Washington insists they target “narco‑terrorists” threatening regional security.An explosion occurred on the vessel during what officials described as a kinetic strike. The boat was allegedly travelling along established narco‑trafficking routes, though no evidence of drugs was presented. The strike was carried out by Joint Task…

Marine Corps Compass Points At about same time the U.S. Marine Corps was reducing its combined arms expeditionary capabilities, the experts at Jane’s publications were taking note of the… Source link

The Alsons Group, a Karachi industrial conglomerate better known for auto parts and electronics, used Eurosatory 2026 in Paris to unveil what it called Pakistan’s first domestically manufactured uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) engines, built through a new in-house division named Advanced Kinetic Aerospace Labs. The stand carried a family of four small piston engines pitched at the lower end of the drone market — the kind of propulsion that turns an inexpensive airframe into a loitering munition or a target drone. For a country whose drone ambitions have long outrun its ability to build the parts that matter, the engines…

Less than three years after launching pilot direct elections of district mayors, known as akims, Kazakhstan has reversed course. A recent amendment to two critical laws – “On Local Public Administration and Self-Government” and “On Elections” – alter the procedure for selecting akims at the district and “cities of regional significance” level, doing away with elections. In Kazakhstan, there are 39 “cities of regional significance.” These are regional economic hubs, such as the regional capital and other major urban centers. The cities of Almaty, Astana, and Shymkent, are “cities of republican significance” and operate independently of the regions in which…