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INVESTIGATION: NORINCO IN PARIS, THE DRAGON SELLS ITS ASSEMBLY LINE TO THE MIDDLE EAST
This may be the most unsettling scene from the fortnight that the defense world staged in Paris in June 2026. At the heart of…
DECODING: CHINA'S FINLESS SUBMARINE — A WEAPON THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE EXISTED
It was a satellite image dated June 1, 2026 that triggered everything. Captured by Vantor and published by the Paris-based military maritime analysis site…
ANALYSIS: PL-16 VS AIM-260, THE MISSILE RACE REDEFINING AIR WARFARE
There was no declaration of war. No speech at the UN. No joint communiqué. There were Chinese military seminar slides that leaked online, an…
COLUMN: Beijing, May 2026 — Trump and Xi Redrew the World in Two Days
There are moments when history tilts and nobody really sees it — because the event is too large to grasp in a single glance.…
ANALYSIS: TRUMP FOREIGN POLICY SCORECARD — WHAT THE FDD REVEALS IN JUNE 2026
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) is not a left-wing organization. It is a Washington think tank, broadly Republican in its sympathies, hawkish…
ANALYSIS: CANADA "RECALIBRATES" ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA — A PERILOUS BALANCE
On June 24, 2026, in Tokyo, Canadian Defence Minister David McGuinty chose his words with surgical precision. The sentence he delivered before Bloomberg deserves…
ANALYSIS: EUROPE AND CHINA — IS MILITARY DECOUPLING POSSIBLE?
Europe is rearming. It increased its defense spending by more than $90 billion in 2025, according to data presented by Mark Rutte at his…
REPORT: Taiwan on a war footing — 5 days of exercises to learn to survive China's attack
On June 22, 2026, at dawn, columns of tanks and armored vehicles from Taiwan's 269th Infantry Brigade began patrolling National Highway 31, in the…
ANALYSIS: 620 Chinese nuclear warheads — SIPRI sounds the alarm on an unchecked arms race
On June 8, 2026, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute — SIPRI — published its annual yearbook on armaments, disarmament, and international security. The…