Day: January 25, 2025

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China’s aggressive maritime actions are expanding up the First Island Chain. Beijing has installed a new, 50 meter-tall structure in sensitive waters near a disputed maritime boundary, recalling China’s disputes with claimants in the South China Sea. And late last year, Japan says China conducted its first drill of a blockade in the Miyako Strait close to Taiwan.

In recent years, corruption scandals involving the Chinese military and defense industry have come to light, with AVIC, a major producer of fighter jets, being hit especially hard. Following the dismissal of AVIC’s former chairman Tan Ruisong in August last year, the company’s general manager Hao Zhaoping and deputy general manager Yang Wei were removed from their positions on January 18. Yang Wei, known as the “Father of the J-20,” was its chief designer.