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Taiwan U.S.–China Military Exercises Modernization Doctrine

PLA to mark 99th anniversary with equipment leap, combat readiness amid complex security landscape

Global Times — Defense 31 July 2026
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The article's body is too truncated to support a specific summary: the naval formation composition, exercise name, scale, and the CMC-approved July 3–7 activity are cut off before key details appear. This is a pre-anniversary feature tied to the PLA's August 1 Founding Day and the 2025 DoD China Military Power Report; its value is as a record of how official military media frames readiness and defense spending in response to U.S. assessments, but the missing text leaves unit identity, location, and exercise scope unknown.

In response to the 2025 Military and Security Developments involving the People's Republic of China recently released by ... Under the approval of the Central Military Commission, from July 3 to 7, a naval formation consisting of ... ​China's limited national defense spending is completely set to safeguard national sovereignty, security and territorial integrity, a military ...

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In response to the 2025 Military and Security Developments involving the People's Republic of China recently released by ... Under the approval of the Central Military Commission, from July 3 to 7, a naval formation consisting of ... ​China's limited national defense spending is completely set to safeguard national sovereignty, security and territorial integrity, a military ...