China (Xi / CCP / PLA)
Assessment
China ran a live-fire joint air-naval drill at Scarborough Shoal on Sept 2 in which armed JL-10 trainers intercepted a Philippine aircraft, keeps coast-guard patrols rotating east of Taiwan on roughly 30-day cycles, and a CSIS study reported on Sept 13 found its coast guard had radio-queried nearly 200 commercial ships transiting the Philippine Sea. Xi attended the BRICS summit in New Delhi on Sept 12 and 13, meeting Modi in the first such bilateral on Indian soil in seven years ahead of a Sept 24 Washington summit, while PLA Daily articles on Sept 13 and 14 pressed civil-military mobilisation and the PLA high command remains thinned by the removal of Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli on Aug 28.
Recent, assessed
- 2026-09-14PLA Daily publishes articles on Sept 13 and 14 urging the mobilisation of civilian resources for military use and the role of civilian entities in information and cognitive 'control warfare', per AEI's China and Taiwan Update. aei.org
Level history
Levels set by research reviews. A level set by hand is shown at the top of the page while it is in force and is not part of this history.
| Date | Level | Review |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 3 | Weekly review |
| 2026-09-14 | 3 | Weekly review |
| 2026-09-12 | 3 | Weekly review |
| 2026-09-12 | 3 | Baseline |
Latest headlines 26
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