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U.S. Senator Joni Ernst has introduced a bill aimed at prohibiting railroad freight surveillance technology linked to the Chinese Communist Party from being used to track sensitive military shipments.

U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Alvaro Smith stated while attending the Army Day event at the Chinese Embassy in the U.S. that current U.S.-China military relations are at their most stable period in recent years.

Two Republican lawmakers in the US Congress have proposed the "Prohibiting People's Liberation Army Employees Act," which would ban current and former employees of Chinese companies identified by the Pentagon as being linked to the Chinese military from entering the United States, and deport those already within the US.

On May 5, 2024, a Chinese-made T-59G tank in Chittagong, Bangladesh, suffered a barrel explosion during firing training after a round jammed. The loader was killed, and the commander and gunner were burned. A State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense investigation team submitted a report on May 7, attributing the accident to Bangladesh's use of non-Chinese standard ammunition and recommending a suspension of the use of such ammunition. The accident was not made public.

The China Coast Guard fleet, previously managed by the State Oceanic Administration, has been transferred in its entirety to the People's Armed Police Force.

The Chinese Coast Guard is wholly placed under the command of the People's Armed Police, belongs to the PAP sequence, but externally still enforces the law as a coast guard.