People's Liberation Army robot dogs loaded with explosives were deployed in an amphibious landing exercise simulating an assault on Taiwan, but CCTV documentary showed the robots being shot down on open beaches. Landing unit commander Ren Mengqi said destroyed unmanned equipment forced resorting to "the most primitive approach – using humans," resulting in "heavy casualties." The drill, featuring footage from Strait Thunder 2025A in April, marked one of six large-scale joint

China's Eastern Theatre Command conducted high-profile drills with H-6K bombers near Taiwan, with eight sorties detected on Thursday – the highest from a single direction in three months. The bombers, capable of striking targets at over 8,000 kilometers with YJ-21 hypersonic "carrier killer" missiles, were displayed in rare CCTV footage ahead of President Xi Jinping's expected meeting with US President Donald Trump at the APEC summit in South Korea, according to mainland mili