In late April 2026, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te was scheduled to conduct a diplomatic visit to the Kingdom of Eswatini to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the coronation of Ki......
As China's Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress entered into force on July 1, Taiwan finds itself on the other side of a pointed contrast: a sweeping national security reform......
A new report from one of Australia's leading defense think tanks argues that China may not need to force its way through the Western-designed security cordon in the Western Pacific......
Fourteen countries, led by the Philippines and the United States, issued a joint statement Sunday marking a decade since an international tribunal ruled that China's sweeping marit......
A decade after an international tribunal delivered a landmark ruling against Beijing's sweeping South China Sea claims, China has not merely maintained its refusal to accept the ve......
A Taiwanese district court judge vacationing in China was tracked down and interrogated at his hotel by Chinese public security officers, Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) re......
On July 6, 2026, a Chinese Type 094 "Jin-class" nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine launched a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) into the Pacific Ocean, marking t......
Taiwan's government has formally condemned China after a Japanese-born political commentator was punched in the face during a public event in Taichung, an assault prosecutors say w......
Brussels has broken up a smuggling operation accused of flooding European black markets with more than 200,000 counterfeit condoms manufactured in China, the EU's anti-fraud office......
As tensions across East Asia continue to rise, China's People's Liberation Army Navy fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile into the Pacific on July 6 — a test that breached ......
At 12:01 p.m. on July 6, a People's Liberation Army Navy nuclear-powered submarine fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile carrying a simulated warhead into the South Pacific ......
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has proposed that the European Union pursue a "Plaza Accord for China" — a coordinated effort to force a significant revaluation of the renminbi — ......
Xiongan New Area, the flagship "millennium plan" Beijing launched in April 2017 to relieve pressure on the capital, remains largely empty nearly a decade later. Official figures sh......
A provincial task force in Henan is investigating a pattern in which at least 21 refrigerated trucks, hauling cargo worth millions of yuan, were diverted off their intended routes ......
As China marks the 60th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution this year, a Stanford University scholar who once worked inside China's Communist Party apparatus is drawing a direct......
As U.S.-Iran tensions show tentative signs of easing, a prominent Washington strategist is urging the Trump administration to confront an uncomfortable paradox at the heart of its ......
Hong Kong's national security police raided a small independent bookstore in the Sham Shui Po district on the evening of June 24, arresting its owner and a second person on charges......
Following a successful debut in China, The Magic of Tomorrowland returns to Shanghai on October 17 and 18 with global artists, and a two-day lineup. Register now on the INS platform for access to the TMOT Treasure Case.
Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday pushed back against suggestions that Vilnius is distancing itself from Taipei, insisting that bilateral cooperation remains on track ......
The U.S. Department of War announced on June 16 that U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) would officially revert to its former name, U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM). While its a......
A new report projecting that gig workers could account for nearly half of China's entire employed population by 2026 has drawn an unusually swift rebuttal from Beijing, exposing de......
A U.S. citizen and prominent scholar of Myanmar affairs was detained by Chinese security authorities in Yunnan province earlier this month, sparking concern among academic freedom ......
Kuomintang (KMT) chairwoman Cheng Li-wen (鄭麗文) concluded her sixteen-day visit to the United States this week. Reactions have been predictably mixed, shaped more by existing politi......
Taiwan's National Security Bureau (國家安全局, NSB) opened a dedicated online portal on June 14 to solicit intelligence tips from people inside mainland China and Chinese nationals abro......
BloombergNEF's (BNEF) annual Electric Vehicle Outlook (EVO) expects over a quarter (27%) of cars sold globally in 2026 to be electric – up from 9% five years ago – and over half (5......
Kono Yohei (河野洋平), one of Japan's most consequential postwar statesmen, died on June 8 from pancreatic cancer at the age of 89. To many younger Japanese, he was perhaps best known ......
Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. has become the first sitting foreign defense minister sanctioned in the history of Chinese diplomacy. The move is more than an esc......
