Remember that secretive missile test that China had last week? Well, it didn't just catch the world by surprise: a lot of people in and around northwest China were pretty spooked by the sudden, unexplained explosion. Naturally, people notice when things in the air blow up: luckily for China's military, though, it seems like a lot of them just thought it was a UFO. more ›

China's been pretty upset at America for the past few days or so over the Patriot missiles that they sold to Taiwan last week. And to show it, China decided to test their new anti ballistic missile technology earlier today. Though it may look like a blatant reaction to US foreign policy, China's foreign ministry swears it wasn't. more ›

We first came across this on Wired's Danger Room blog, which quoted air expert Stephen Trimble calling it "the Sgt. Pepper of dogfight cartoons." The video tells the story of some Chinese fighter jets (of which we know very little about) who are trying to refuel midair, but keep getting cut in line. The Chinese jets (and a lone Japanese one) have had it when an American B-52 tries to bustle its way in - which then sets the scene for the "trippy" dogfight. more ›

The findings from last week's annual security report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission to congress has gotten China pretty angsty: the report states that China has been increasing cyber espionage attacks on the US in order to gain military information, and cites an increase in government involvement in these attacks. The foreign ministry department strongly denied spying, but as concerns over China's secretive military buildup grow we wonder if Beijing is sweating a little too hard from this extra pressure. Then again, we'd like to know how many of those 230 million hack attempts on China's new military website were conducted by American spies? more ›

These statistics are mind numbing: China's new military website, http://www.mod.gov.cn, was attacked 230 million times by hackers in the first month of operation. The site, which is the government's last attempt at providing a level of transparency regarding their immensely secretive military buildup, was never successfully hacked into. If the numbers are correct, then that means over 5,000 hacks were attempted every minute: if that was just in the first month, how much do you think it's increased since then? more ›