President Xi Jinping appears set to steam ahead with an aggressive foreign policy in 2016.

With the security situation deteriorating everywhere from Nigeria to Burundi to Mali to Libya, China needs to be able to protect its infrastructure and personnel.

A trilateral summit in Seoul suggests Beijing may be softening towards Japan and South Korea.

As the Pentagon muddles and U.S. military equipment ages, Beijing is investing in advanced ballistic weapons.

Don’t be fooled. Personnel cuts are part of broader effort to strengthen the Chinese military.

At its grand Victory Day parade, China claimed to seek peace, but analysts aren’t buying it.

Chinese President Xi has found in Confucianism (as he understands it) an ideology useful to the construction of a Chinese model of modernity—which is intended to contribute to the task of empire-building.