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South China Morning Post
12 hours ago
- Politics
- South China Morning Post
On WWII anniversary, China's PLA says Japan never abandoned dream of military power
China's military mouthpiece has accused Japan of hollowing out its pacifist constitution and 'embarking on the dangerous path of military expansion'. As Japan marked the 80th anniversary of its surrender in World War II on Friday, the PLA Daily warned in a commentary that 'the spectre of militarism has never left the Japanese archipelago', and that right-wing forces had 'never abandoned the dream of becoming a military power'. It accused Tokyo of using American support to steadily roll back post-war restrictions and trigger 'deep concern in the international community over the revival of militarism'. 09:49 Japan weighs bold era of militarisation as Tokyo races to meet defence spending goals Japan weighs bold era of militarisation as Tokyo races to meet defence spending goals The commentary coincided with Japanese Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi's visit to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine on the anniversary, the first confirmed visit by a cabinet member from Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's administration. Such visits have consistently drawn sharp criticism from China and other Asian neighbours, which view the shrine as glorifying Japanese militarism and insulting the victims of Japan's wartime aggression. The commentary in the People's Liberation Army's newspaper also warned against Tokyo's expanding defence partnerships, citing deeper US-Japan military integration, reciprocal access agreements with Australia, Britain and the Philippines, and growing engagement with Nato. 'Under the pretext of cooperation and exchange, Japan is using military linkages to build momentum for its own military development,' it said.
South China Morning Post
13-05-2025
- Science
- South China Morning Post
PLA Navy drill uses AI to trim warship's magnetic field, gets 60% more efficient
The Chinese navy has marked its first use of artificial intelligence (AI) in an exercise for warship degaussing, or magnetic immunisation. AI integration increased the efficiency of the process by 60 per cent, potentially boosting the stealth capacity and survivability of China's expanding submarine fleet, state media reports said. The combat-readiness degaussing exercise took place recently at a PLA Northern Theatre Command naval base, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Sunday. The simulated emergency drill marked the first operational deployment of an AI-assisted decision-making system, and improved performance far beyond traditional manual methods, it said. The base commander, who was not identified, told the official PLA Daily that 'degaussing is vital to a warship's survivability on a modern battlefield'. Troops simulated a 'combat-oriented' approach, using acoustic and electromagnetic modelling to test the process under realistic conditions, the newspaper quoted the commander as saying in a report published on Saturday.
