Liu Zhen

3 weeks ago | scmp.com | Liu Zhen |Seong Hyeon Choi |Yuanyue Dang

Ukrainian attacks targeting airbases deep inside Russian territory despite lacking long-range missiles or bombers could offer important lessons about modern warfare in the event of any conflict in the Taiwan Strait. Under the operation, code-named Spider’s Web, Ukraine smuggled drones into Russian territory undetected and hired unwitting drivers to transport them in modified containers to locations near airbases, some of them thousands of kilometres from Ukraine’s border.

3 weeks ago | scmp.com | Liu Zhen

China and Canada have agreed to work to “reset relations” in a phone call between Premier Li Qiang and Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday. After years of “unnecessary disruption” and “serious difficulties” in the relationship, China would now like to see it developing in a “healthy and stable” way, Li said, according to the Chinese foreign ministry. Both leaders acknowledged the importance of engagement and agreed to regularise channels of communication, according to the Canadians.

3 weeks ago | scmp.com | Liu Zhen

Israel on Wednesday announced that it used a lower-powered version of its laser defence system Iron Beam for the first time last year, intercepting dozens of aerial targets, including unmanned vehicles, that were launched by Hezbollah in Lebanon. In video footage reportedly taken in October and released by the Israeli defence ministry, what appears to be an Iron Beam laser can be seen targeting flying fixed-wing drones before shooting them from the sky.

4 weeks ago | scmp.com | Liu Zhen

The Chinese military and coastguard on Saturday launched a sea and air combat readiness patrol around Scarborough Shoal, known as Huangyan Island in China, to “further strengthen its control and defend its sovereignty”, according to an official statement.

1 month ago | scmp.com | Liu Zhen

Aerial shots and detailed analysis of a key Taiwanese military base on mainland Chinese social media have sparked security concerns on the self-ruled island, where officials are seeking to reassure the public. The images of Hualien Air Base were part of a video lasting less than seven minutes that emerged last week on RedNote, or Xiaohongshu, the mainland-based lifestyle platform that is also popular in Taiwan, especially among young users.