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Miles Yu is the director of the China Center at the Hudson Institute and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. His Red Horizon column appears every other Tuesday in The Washington Times. He can be reached at mmilesyu@gmail.com.

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Inside China: Taiwan’s anti-sub drill

The Taiwanese navy this week conducted an anti-submarine warfare drill as part of a recent effort to improve the island's defenses against a Chinese underwater attack.

January 16, 2014
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing last week. Mr. Yanukovych's visit is aimed at gaining Chinese support for Ukraine's battered economy. The country's economic malaise has helped fuel ongoing protests in Kiev. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Inside China: Ukraine gets nuclear umbrella

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych escaped protests in his country last week with a state visit to Beijing, where he received China's pledge to protect Ukraine under its nuclear umbrella.

December 12, 2013
The replica of a Chinese made fighter jet is silhouetted against the sun in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013. China said Wednesday it had monitored two unarmed U.S. bombers that flew over the East China Sea in defiance of Beijing's declaration it was exercising greater military control over the area. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Inside China: Airspace acrimony in East China Sea

China's effort to isolate Japan as its primary regional competitor has unraveled in less than a week: World powers rallied to echo Tokyo's outrage over Beijing setting up an air defense zone that encompasses much of the air defense zones of neighboring countries.

November 28, 2013
In this Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013, photo provided by the Navy Media Content Service (NMCS), a MV-22 Ospreys, load supplies to provide aid during Operation Damayan. The George Washington Carrier Strike Group and the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade are assisting the Philippine government in response to the aftermath of typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda in the Republic of the Philippines. (AP Photo/ NMCS 3rd Class Ricardo R. Guzman/Released)

Inside China: Beijing’s embarrassing relief effort for the Philippines

China, the world's second-largest economy and a key member of the Asia-Pacific community of nations, is providing the Philippines with an initial disaster relief package totaling $100,000 — an international example of the government's stingy response to humanitarian disasters.

November 14, 2013
"Silent Contest," the work of the Chinese army's Political Commissars community, depicts a sub-rosa struggle between the U.S. and China — a battle to control the hearts and minds of the Chinese people.

Inside China: A parade of paranoia about U.S. ‘engagement’ in China

Comprehensive "engagement" has been a cornerstone of U.S. policy toward China since the Nixon administration. But the bedrock of Beijing's U.S. policy is paranoia over what Chinese leaders believe is a "peaceful evolution" conspiracy designed to overthrow the communist dictatorship via the ideological and spiritual infiltration of China's society.

November 7, 2013

Inside China: Pacific challenges

The People's Liberation Army's (PLA) navy has begun a massive exercise in the western Pacific that is widely seen as a response to the recently completed U.S.-Japan-South Korean joint naval drills led by the aircraft carrier USS George Washington near the Korean Peninsula.

October 24, 2013
Chinese soldiers march outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing where the se¿ inner circle of Chinese political power, was paraded in front of assembled media Thursday, the day after 18th Communist Party Congress ended. (Associated Press)

Inside China: Taiwan invasion exercise

More than 20,000 Chinese soldiers, sailors and airmen carried out a boisterous joint-operation exercise this month, with Taiwan as the apparent simulated target of a Normandy-style invasion.

October 17, 2013
Xi Jinping

Inside China: Military entertainers

The People's Liberation Army (PLA) operates a large "entertainment corps" known for its extraordinary privilege, unique access to power elites and wasteful extravagance. Now President Xi Jinping is vowing to tighten controls on military entertainers.

September 5, 2013
Bo Xilai

Inside China: Beijing’s hot Bo-tato

The show trial in China of recently purged communist leader Bo Xilai has become an unexpected national sensation. Mr. Bo has cleverly — and some say with carefully delivered court eloquence — turned the tables on his accusers and indirectly on the Communist Party judicial system. And the incumbent Communist Party supreme leadership appears to be furious.

August 29, 2013
**FILE** Indians cheer during the launch of the Indian Navy’s anti-submarine warfare corvette INS Kiltan on the Ganges river in Kolkata, India, on March 26, 2013. The Indian-built corvette is named after the Kiltan island in India’s Lakshwadeep archipelago. (Associated Press)

Inside China: China ridicules Indian navy

The successful launch of India's first indigenously built aircraft carrier, the INS Vikrant, and the tragic accident of an Indian navy Kilo-class submarine that killed 18 sailors created fodder for Chinese state media to use in ridiculing its neighbor.

August 22, 2013

Inside China: Military delays commercial flights

In a rare moment of candor, the official China Daily newspaper disclosed that China's notorious commercial airline delays are caused mainly by a near monopoly on airspace by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force.

August 15, 2013

Inside China: PLA on Taiwan’s weapons

A People's Liberation Army major general said recently that Taiwan should abandon the U.S. as its main weapons supplier and buy arms from Beijing instead.

August 1, 2013
Ma Ying-jeou

Inside China: China’s‘ Xi courts Taiwan’s Ma

Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou of the ruling Kuomintang Party received a rare congratulation message from Chinese President Xi Jinping. Analysts say the message contained some surprises.

July 25, 2013

Inside China: Chinese navy courts Seychelles

The Chinese naval vessel the Harbin, a Type 052 heavy destroyer, arrived mid-June at the Republic of Seychelles with a special mission: Display friendliness and take part in the Seychelles National Day parade.

July 11, 2013