Recent satellite imagery shows twice as many K-8/JL-8-family trainer aircraft on site as Laos' air force is thought to possess Chinese military aircraft may already be using a new joint aviation ...
The new runway in Ban Keun is currently used by only small jets. Neighboring nations are watching warily to see if Beijing ...
Beijing says its new Laos facility will train pilots. Analysts see a broader signal: China's growing military presence in ...
The Ban Keun base in Laos used to be used by the CIA-operated Air America during the Vietnam War, as a logistics and support ...
High-level diplomatic summits and personal chemistry between U.S. and Chinese leaders frequently dominate global headlines, ...
Every country that cannot be a superpower now wants to be called a middle power. Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney built ...
The ministry said that the facilities exist to help Laos train its air force pilots. Data on the Lao People's Liberation Army Air Force is sketchy, but open-source intelligence firm Janes reckons that ...
Increasingly, the focus of new possibilities opened up by melting ice, polar routes have become a place of geopolitical ...
The most widespread narratives regarding the Laos-China Support and Training Center lack evidence and demonstrate a limited ...
Ban Keun poses only a limited direct threat to the South China Sea or Taiwan, but it will enhance China’s ability to place ...
The China-Laos Joint Support and Training Center and the China-Laos Friendship Aviation Academy are now operational ​at an ...
(Corrects typographical error in word 'prospect in paragraph 25) By Greg Torode and Mei Mei Chu HONG KONG/BEIJING, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Purges of military leaders may have dented China's war-fighting ...