China's military mouthpiece, PLA Daily, has called for the People's Liberation Army to accelerate the integration of artificial intelligence, citing the US-Israeli campaign against Iran as evidence that AI-driven warfare is at a 'turning point'.

China's military mouthpiece accused Japan of 'dangerously expanding' its defense industry and possessing a large plutonium stockpile, while Japan has now deployed its first domestically built long-range missiles with a 1,000km range, capable of reaching the Chinese coast, as it steps up deterrence.