China’s counter-UAV efforts reveal more than technological advancement

The China Intelligence is an occasional series that draws on open-source material to report on China and its military.Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are reshaping modern warfare—from the battlefields ofUkraine to the contested skies over the South China Sea—and spurring Beijing to upgrade its counter-drone capabilities aggressively. Recent demonstrations featuringhigh-power microwave systems and AI-assisted autonomous interceptors reveal an evolving PLAstrategy designed to