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China says that Indian troops crossed the Line of Actual Control into the Shenpao mountain region near Pangong Tso Lake and then fired warning shots to intimidate Chinese border troops. A few hours later, India said that Chinese troops had fired into the air to intimidate Indian border troops, and that at no stage had the Indian Army crossed the LAC.
2020-09-8

China moves thousands of People's Liberation Army troops to its Himalayan border with India, bringing vehicles and heavy machinery to what India says is its territory. India sends several battalions of its Army from nearby Leh to the border in response.
2020-05-28

China's People's Liberation Army says the nation's J-10C fighter jets have entered combat service.
2018-04-16

Scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology trace the source of the deadly 2002–04 SARS virus outbreak, which killed 774 people in 37 countries, to a colony of cave-dwelling horseshoe bats in China's Yunnan province.
2017-12-10

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin says the United States was making political provocations with its patrols in the disputed South China Sea. He also says China is building military facilities on islands and reefs in the South China Sea as part of its national defense policy. Yesterday, U.S. President Barack Obama said, for the sake of regional stability, countries should stop building artificial islands and militarizing their claims in this sea.
2015-11-22

The People's Liberation Army of China holds three days of live-fire drills in the Taiwan Strait, while Taiwan holds exercises simulating Chinese submarines attacking Kinmen and being repelled by Taiwanese amphibious forces.
2015-09-11

China condemns the Philippines over the latter's "pressure" over the South China Sea despite the disadvantage of the Armed Forces of the Philippines against China's People's Liberation Army.
2014-12-7

The death toll from the earthquake in China's Yunnan province rises to 589 with nine people still missing.
2014-08-6

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake kills at least 367 people and injures more than 1,700 in Yunnan, China.
2014-08-3

"The New York Times" publishes allegations that a Chinese People's Liberation Army unit called PLA Unit 61398 may be the source of hacking attacks on the West.
2013-02-19