Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan called a midnight emergency meeting on June 22, 2016 to discuss urgent anti-missile and interception plans in the aftermath of North Korea’s two (more…)
An overwhelming majority, or 85 percent, of Taiwanese would like the island democracy to rejoin the United Nations. (FULL STORY) (more…)
After the United States and Russia have hosted separate solidarity summits with the ASEAN leaders on the crisis in the South China Sea, the Chinese communist government has been (more…)
When an unprecedented trilateral naval drill involving the U.S., Japan and India began on June 10, the Chinese navy’s spy ships responded by aggressively shadowing the participating naval vessels (more…)
Japan’s Defense Minister Gen Nakatani met with Admiral Scott Swift, commander of the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet which headquartered in Yokosuka, Japan, on June 14. (FULL STORY) (more…)
U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter told the Chinese defense delegation in Singapore that the U.S. will take appropriate action if China crosses the red line, i.e. further reclamation (more…)
A large-scale week-long naval drill will officially usher in a new collective defense partnership involving the three largest navies in the region, those of the United States, Japan and (more…)
South Korean fishermen recently took the law into their own hands and clashed with intruding Chinese fishing vessels. (FULL STORY) (more…)
A Russian court in the Far East city of Vladivostok on May 20 sentenced two Chinese businessmen to three years each in jail for bribing Russian police officers. The (more…)
