Journalists were forced to kneel on the ground in a recent operation to disperse protesters in Mong Kok.

Xi Jinping faces dilemma in resolving crisis without losing face

When the Chinese coast guard put up a barrier in the South China Sea, the Philippines devised a plan to retaliate.

Shinzo Abe hints invasion could meet the conditions for Japan to use military force

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Manila said that more than 135 Chinese “maritime militia” ships were “swarming” a reef that it claims sovereignty over in the disputed waterway.

The United States has already proposed to other countries the idea of holding an online meeting of the grouping's leaders, according to one source.

Chinese firm could have been monitoring calls of KPN’s 6.5m users without its knowledge, report claims

Speaking to the Japan Times in Taipei, retired Adm. Lee Hsi-min called for called for a pivot in the island's approach to warfare, as well as its related purchases.

From Philippines to Cambodia, politicians take powers and cash to fight pandemic

The main reason is self-defence, not as a favor to Washington

Parallel naval exercises likely to irk China

The arrival of the Yuan Wang 5, a Chinese navy ship equipped with advanced sensors, marked a small triumph for Beijing over India and the United States.

Some of the kits from China proved to only be 40% accurate. Spain earlier also withdrew 58,000 China kits for poor accuracy.

After years of contentious military cost-sharing negotiations under former U.S. President Donald Trump, the United States and South Korea signed a deal on Thursday, marking what some say is a return...

Strategy relies on a steady progression of actions to outmaneuver rival states

Prison terms for Jimmy Lai and seven activists mark tightening restrictions on free expression

The unusually strong message from Tokyo comes shortly before Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga travels to the U.S. for a summit with President Biden.

Pentagon chief to make rare visit to Pacific island nation as China steps up outreach

President Trump has chosen one of his leading policy counselors on China and North Korea as his new deputy national security adviser, according to an administration official.

Defense guidelines unveiled amid growing concerns over Taiwan crisis

Open-RAN to enable communication less dependent on 5G leaders like Huawei

By touring a region of China that calls itself a rare-earths kingdom, Chinese President Xi Jinping pinpointed a source of leverage his government has over high-technology industries critical to the...

US backs religious freedom no matter how trade talks go, vice president vows

With at least 140 registered space-tech start-ups, India stands to transform the planet’s connection to the final frontier.

Ohio’s Senate primary has turned into a war of the trolls.

Manila’s strategy has swayed regional views against China’s “blatant disregard for international law”, an official says.

The United States and its allies can tip the balance between a costly success and a calamity.

The deputy national security adviser urged Trump to adopt the term “Wuhan virus” and has promoted a confrontational approach in the midst of the pandemic.

Washington researchers cash five- and six-figure checks annually from Taiwan’s government but bury that conflict of interest when writing about U.S.-Taiwan policy.

Shared use of facilities for contingencies raised at 2-plus-2

White House drugs tsar says Beijing needs to tighten rules on supply of raw materials to make fentanyl

Gary Roughead calls for four-nation group to rotate command

WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - About 60 US universities on Sunday (July 12) filed a brief supporting a lawsuit by two others, seeking to block a Trump administration rule barring foreign students from...

61% want Tokyo to keep in step with West on Russia sanctions, Nikkei poll shows

Philippine president avoids criticizing Beijing, hoping for pandemic aid

Last week on this page, former prime minister Tony Abbott argued about a Taiwan under threat that it is hard to see “how Australia could (or should) stand aside from assisting a fellow liberal...

HNLMS Evertsen will be joining the upcoming UK Carrier Strike Group deployment.

With less than a year left to Philippine leader's term, many of his promises have remained just that. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Hong Kong mass protests take shine off 'one country, two systems' offer

The US Navy sailed a warship near the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea Friday as part of an operation aimed at challenging Chinese claims to the area, a move that drew an immediate protest from...

A Chinese nuclear-powered submarine has sunk with the loss of 55 sailors after it was caught in a trap intended for American and British vessels, leaked intelligence reports disclose.China has denied...

Tokyo and Washington are both determined to prevent Beijing from dominating the Indo-Pacific

Beijing incrementally built up military outposts, with little pushback from the U.S., and has emerged as a power in the strategic waters through which trillions of dollars in trade passes

Manila is strengthening its alliance with Washington due to fears of a possible war over Taiwan

The Chinese Communist Party objects to an independent scientific inquiry into the origins of COVID-19. It has punished people who are dedicated to the scientific pursuit of truth. It has dismissed...

On this Washington Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Dov Zakheim, PhD, former DoD comptroller, now with the Center for Strategic and...

Russia said such a move will 'inevitably provoke new security challenges and will lead to increased tension in the Asia-Pacific region.'

In a posthumously published book, the former Japanese leader said he pushed then-President Donald Trump to take a stronger stand on North Korea but found him weak and overly eager for a deal.

Scott Morrison is not for turning on China. But few people in our political and security system doubt that China has embarked on a campaign of intimidation of unknown duration to test Australia’s...

Based on the official view from Beijing, the Philippines has no reason to worry about Chinese fishing boats sitting along a disputed reef in the South China Sea.

Beijing may think it has an opening to seize the island before the West’s military investments pay off.

Taiwanese president touts investment as show of deeper ties with Washington

Island seeks to grow international presence while avoiding attack from Beijing

Leaked memo from Mike Minihan comes as tension remains high over Taiwan

Australia has aligned itself with the United States in supporting UNCLOS and the 2016 Arbitral Tribunal ruling.

Beijing's rise as a major armaments exporter is a double-edged sword for Moscow

Washington calls on EU to use influence in Beijing to halt weapons transfers to Moscow

New Delhi's influence in Dhaka helps foil Chinese plans for similar foothold

Deal marks significant step in Washington’s efforts to limit rival’s semiconductor industry

There is a “real and living danger” of an accidental war between the US and China unless the nations can manage their rivalry, the former prime minister says.

Propaganda rewrites the logic of the national security law and paints legitimate democratic aspirations as the work of foreign forces.

Japan is looking to buy hundreds of U.S.-built Tomahawk cruise missiles as part of an unprecedented defense buildup.

Return of musical-chairs leadership can only weaken country on global stage

A decade of “delayed and unpredictable funding” for the U.S. military’s budget has seen America lose its primacy in the Western Pacific, giving the edge to an increasingly sophisticated China, a...

Countries that ratified the U.N.'s Law of the Sea treaty are diving into plans for deep sea mining, but Republican holdouts in the U.S. torpedoed U.S. efforts to join in.

Tensions rise around Indonesian water bordering the South China Sea

Indonesia and Philippines use very different strategies in dealing with Beijing

China’s increasingly frequent exercises around Taiwan indicate that Beijing is refining a strategy to isolate the island.

Japan plans to start converting a destroyer next year into its first post-World War II aircraft carrier and make its first payment for Lockheed Martin F-35B jet fighters that can take off from the...