Tag: Ring

Inside the Ring: House panel seeks release of COVID origin secrets

NEWS AND ANALYSIS: Two classified State Department documents made public in part by a House subcommittee suggest that Chinese President Xi Jinping was involved in covering up the deadly COVID-19 outbreak. The heavily censored reports sent from Taiwan to the State Department in July and August 2020 also provide new clues to the Chinese military’s […]

Inside the Ring: China launches third aircraft carrier

NEWS AND ANALYSIS: China began sea trials for the third aircraft carrier for its People’s Liberation Army on Wednesday, Chinese state media reported. The official Chinese military website announced the carrier sea trials in a three-paragraph dispatch from Shanghai. “The ship left Shanghai Jiangnan Shipyard at around 8 a.m. The sea trials will primarily test […]

Inside the Ring: PLA gets major information warfare upgrade

NEWS AND ANALYSIS: Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled a major reorganization of the People’s Liberation Army last week, setting up a new strategic service arm in charge of information warfare, according to the Beijing Defense Ministry and state media. The new information support force and three other military components will replace the relatively recently created […]

Inside the Ring: New probe ties Russia to Havana Syndrome attacks

NEWS AND ANALYSIS: New probe ties Russia to Havana Syndrome attacks U.S. intelligence agencies increasingly are under fire for downplaying what a recent media investigation contended was Russia’s covert use of a new type of beam weapon that inflicted brain injuries on scores of American diplomats and intelligence officials. As reported by Inside the Ring […]

Inside the Ring: China grows domestic bio weapons tech industry

NEWS AND ANALYSIS: China is advancing its domestic, dual-use biological research capabilities with applications for the People’s Liberation Army germ warfare programs, according to an open-source intelligence report. Recent virology studies “demonstrate that China is now able to operate its own dual-use virology research agenda on-shore and without international inputs or considerations,” according to a […]