The United States and South Korea abruptly cut their annual Ulchi Freedom Shield military exercise nearly in half on August 19 at Washington's explicit request — with Seoul's forei......
Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday condemned Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim after he characterized Taiwan as "part of China" in a televised interview and stopp......
Japan marked the 81st anniversary of its World War II surrender on August 15 with a familiar ritual of diplomatic friction, as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stayed away from Yasuku......
Taiwan's Defense Minister Wellington Koo received a bipartisan delegation from the US House of Representatives on July 31, discussing cross-strait security and pledging sustained c......
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......
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......
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......
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 ......
In an era of international relations where politics and policies seem to change by the hour, there are few truths that have proven self-evident for decades. But here's one: The sec......
Taiwan's former President Tsai Ing-wen made her first public appearance in Taiwan on Thursday since returning from a trip to Italy, telling a business audience that the island can ......
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......
For decades, Japan's deepest security anxiety was being pulled into an American war it did not choose. That fear, a leading Japanese political scientist now argues, has been overta......
Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) announced on May 22 that it will participate in a multilateral live-fire exercise called "Southern Jackaroo 26" alongside United States an......
When scholars and policymakers discuss the risks behind U.S.-China rivalry, one concept often resurfaces: the Thucydides Trap. The term describes a dangerous pattern in internation......
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) moved quickly to address public concern on Saturday evening (May 17), posting a detailed five-point statement on Facebook after U.S. President D......
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi confirmed on the evening of May 15 that U.S. President Donald Trump called her directly from Air Force One shortly after departing China, off......
U.S. President Donald Trump arrived at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Thursday morning for a high-profile summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping — the first such meet......
Security has been tightened around Tiananmen Square for days. A state banquet is planned, along with a visit to the Temple of Heaven. China, theBBC reports, is ready to put on a sh......
Fifty-eight Filipino emergency responders completed a two-week intensive training program in New Taipei City this week, as Taiwan wrapped up its annual trilateral disaster-response......
Australian Envoy Warns China's Gray Zone Tactics Are Testing US–Japan DeterrenceChina's expanding use of so-called “gray zone” tactics—coercive actions short of open warfare—is st......
On his first overseas tour as U.S. under secretary of defense for policy, Elbridge Colby used visits to Japan and South Korea to outline what officials describe as a doctrine of “f......
