In the past few decades, defence spending of Beijing has risen steadily in absolute terms that it has transformed its military from a regional force into ...

Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wu Jianghao Photo: the official WeChat accout of the Chinese Embassy in Japan. Eighty years ago, ...

While daily life remains largely intact, Chinese locals and Japanese expatriates in China tell CNA of a quiet unease as the ...

From the moment Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi declared to the Diet that a possible Chinese attack on Taiwan could be a “survival ...

When President Xi spoke on the phone with Donald Trump this week, he again pressed the case for Taiwan to be returned to ...

Japan has picked a fight with China on the assumption that the United States would back it up. In the Trump era, this may have been an unwise bet.

ON Nov. 7, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told her country’s legislature that if China attacked Taiwan, it could be ...

FEW Filipinos are familiar with the historical, strategic and military significance of Kinmen Island to the Taiwanese people.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong speaks of balance, equality and a new regional order – yet Australia’s China policy still carries ...

USS Ranger (CVA-61), a Forrestal-class carrier commissioned in 1957, became one of the U.S. Navy’s most important Cold War ...

Han Kuang 2025 shows that Taiwan can rehearse joint warfighting and whole-of-society defense, but as someone who has worn the uniform and still calls this island home, I know we have not yet built the ...

A military blockade under cover of a 'search and rescue' operation. Hackers bring down the financial system. And an outlying island is seized by insurmountable force.