Abhishek Kumar Darbey

The Fujian aircraft carrier is a conventionally powered aircraft carrier with electromagnetic catapults.

• Abhishek Kumar Darbey |
• December 17, 2025 |
• Issue Brief

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee’s core focus was on ‘High-quality Development’ in pursuit of China’s ‘Socialist Modernisation’.

• Abhishek Kumar Darbey |
• November 25, 2025 |
• Issue Brief

China has made notable progress in strengthening its space infrastructure to support space-based surveillance.

• Abhishek Kumar Darbey |
• September 18, 2025 |
• Issue Brief

President Xi Jinping has prosecuted some of the seniormost Chinese military officials for corruption.

• Abhishek Kumar Darbey |
• July 15, 2025 |
• Issue Brief

China has made a consistent and gradual progress in research and development of fighter jets keeping the Soviet-designed fighter models as reference.

• Abhishek Kumar Darbey |
• June 26, 2025 |
• Backgrounder

China has made significant progress in equipping the PLA Navy with aircraft carriers of increasing sophistication and capabilities.

• Abhishek Kumar Darbey |
• May 26, 2025 |
• Issue Brief

While China has been advocating for the Global Security Initiative, only about 40 countries have expressed support to the initiative.

• Abhishek Kumar Darbey |
• March 04, 2025 |
• Issue Brief

China has become the world’s largest exporter of military UAVs and has also captured a significant chunk of the global civilian drone market.

• Abhishek Kumar Darbey |
• November 21, 2024 |
• IDSA Comments

China is pursuing capabilities in cognitive domain to ensure that it can win wars ‘without fighting’.

• Abhishek Kumar Darbey |
• September 27, 2024 |
• Issue Brief

China’s establishment of the PLA Information Support Force (ISF) in April 2024 is a move to ensure information dominance and military modernisation.

• Abhishek Kumar Darbey |
• August 28, 2024 |
• IDSA Comments