MI6 sends James Bond into the field to reconnoiter a terrorist arms bazaar on the Russian border. There Bond capture the movement of the bazaar.

Despite M's insistence on letting 007 finish his reconnaissance, Royal Navy Admiral Roebuck orders the frigate HMS Chester to fire a Harpoon missile at the bazaar. 

Bond then discovers two nuclear torpedoes mounted on an L-39 Albatros; with the missile out of range to be aborted, Bond is forced to pilot the L-39 away seconds before the bazaar is destroyed.

Media baron Elliot Carver starts his plans to use an encoder obtained at the bazaar by his associate, cyberterrorist Henry Gupta, to provoke war between China and the UK. 

Carver's henchmen steal one of the Devonshire's missiles and shoot down a Chinese MiG fighter jet investigating the scene.

The henchmen kill the Devonshire's survivors with weaponry loaded with Chinese ammunition. Which killed all the crew member of the ship,

The British Minister of Defence orders Roebuck to deploy the fleet to investigate the sinking of the frigate,  leaving M only 48 hours to investigate its sinking and avert a war.

M sends Bond to investigate Carver and his company, CMGN, after he released news articles about the crisis hours before MI6 had learned of it.

Bond travels to Hamburg to seduce Carver's wife, Paris (an ex-girlfriend of Bond's), to get information that would help him enter CMGN headquarters. 

He defeats three of Stamper's men and cuts Carver off the air during the inaugural broadcast of his satellite network. 

Carver discovers the truth about Paris and Bond and orders both of them killed. Bond and Paris reconcile at Bond's hotel room, and she provides him with information.

Bond steals the GPS encoder from Gupta's office at the factory; meanwhile, Carver's assassin Dr. Kaufman kills Paris. 

Bond returns to find Paris's body, Kaufman attempts to shoot him. Bond is able to kill Kaufman and escape his henchmen through a multistory car.

At a U.S. Air Force base in Okinawa, Bond learns that the encoder had been tampered with, and goes to the South China Sea to investigate the wreck. 

He and Wai Lin, a Chinese Ministry of State Security agent on the same case, explore the sunken ship and discover one of its cruise missiles missing.

But after reaching the surface they are captured by Stamper and taken to the CMGN tower in Saigon. Tries to kill them.

They soon escape and contact the Royal Navy and the People's Liberation Army Air Force to explain Carver's scheme. 

Carver plans to destroy most of the Chinese government with the stolen missile, allowing a corrupt Chinese general to negotiate a truce between Britain and China.

Bond and Wai Lin board Carver's stealth ship to prevent him from firing the missile at Beijing; Wai Lin is captured, forcing Bond to devise a second plan.

Bond captures Gupta to use as his own hostage, but Carver kills Gupta, claiming he has "outlived his contract".

Bond detonates an explosive, damaging the ship and rendering it visible to radar, and vulnerable to a subsequent Royal Navy attack. 

While Wai Lin disables the engines, she is recaptured by Stamper. Bond kills Carver with his own sea drill and attempts to destroy the warhead with detonators.

Bond traps Stamper in the missile firing mechanism and saves Wai Lin as the missile explodes, destroying the ship and killing Stamper. 

Bond saved Wai Lin  sat on the surface of the sea and share a romantic moment amidst the wreckage as HMS Bedford searches for them.