Video shows Gen Xu Qinxian explaining why he refused to deploy troops to crush 1989 student-led demonstrations ...

History becomes legend. Legend becomes myth. At best, historians hope that at least a kernel of truth lingers lost among centuries’ worth of embellishment, propaganda, and hype. But the gap between ...

In 1989, Gen. Xu Qinxian defied orders to crush the pro-democracy protests in Beijing. Now, leaked video from his ...

SHENYANG, China (AP) — Yang Huafeng, a 92-year-old Chinese army veteran, remembers the troops on horseback and the handful of planes that marked the founding of communist China in 1949. It was a far ...

This article appeared in History of War magazine issue 151. On 2 September 1945, Japanese forces officially surrendered to the Republic of China, ending the brutal occupation which began in 1937.

The military is under the civilian control of the Ministry of National Defense, a cabinet-level agency overseen by the Legislative Yuan. Formerly known as the National Revolutionary Army, it was ...

As China held a massive parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, edited images and videos of the country's military circulated in social media posts falsely claiming AFP ...

Jori Hall is a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation. Last year, the Department of War warned that China could be ready to invade Taiwan as early as 2027. Now, the People’s ...

Today, the Chinese military has weapons systems so technologically advanced that, in some cases, there are no Western equivalents. From a country that used to be known for deriving designs from the ...