China has lodged stern representation to the US after the US Department of Defense released the 2020 report on China’s military and security developments, another example of the US defaming China’s national defense and military modernization, the Chinese Ministry of National Defense said Sunday.

Warship to be launched in late 2020 or early 2021: reports, experts say It has been nearly two years since the Xinhua News Agency revealed that China’s third aircraft carrier was under construction, and recent media reports suggest that work is progressing smoothly and the launch of the warship is near.

Warring sides in Afghanistan have accused each other of staging fresh battlefield attacks as their representatives held a second day of historic, U.S.-brokered peace talks Sunday away from home in Qatar.

The wife of Asim Umar, a senior leader of Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent who was killed during a raid in a Taliban stronghold last fall, was among the 5,000 prisoners released by the Afghan government.