Japan, South Korea defense chiefs break ice, reach key agreements
It is not well known in the West that government officials of America’s two most significant Asian allies are not regularly meeting or speaking. (FULL STORY) (more…)
China claims foreign agencies recruited four spies at defense plant
China’s Central TV station broadcast on Oct. 19 a rare long report on four Chinese nationals working for a defense plant as treasonous agents for an unnamed foreign intelligence (more…)
EU’s planned trade, investment deals with Taiwan infuriates Beijing
The Chinese Communist government has issued loud warnings (which have escalated) to the European Union over its decision to explore investment initiatives with Taiwan. (FULL STORY) (more…)
China retaliates after Taiwan politician secretly meets Abe in Tokyo
Over Beijing’s strenuous objection, Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan’s largest opposition party leader visited Japan from Oct. 6 to Oct 9, and secretly met with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (more…)
Tokyo stunned by Okinawa’s reversal on U.S. base relocation permit
Gov. Takeshi Onaga of Okinawa officially revoked the permit to start landfill work for the new U.S. Marine Corps air base on Oct. 13. (FULL STORY) (more…)
U.S. rebuffs China’s threat on island sovereignty claim
“Make no mistake, the United States military would sail and fly wherever international law allows, as we do around the world, and the South China Sea will not be (more…)
Chaos: Taiwan’s ruling KMT tied to unpopular pro-China policies
The ruling KMT party in the Republic of China on Taiwan has chosen a party-endorsed presidential candidate but she is doing badly in the poll. So the KMT party (more…)
China’s Nobel problem: Virtually all winners are politically incorrect
It has become a pattern: There have been more than a dozen ethnic Chinese who have won the Nobel Prize since the 1950s. But none of them really are (more…)
U.S. poised to approve major arms sale to Taiwan
The U.S. is set to announce a new round of weapons sale to Taiwan to beef up the island democracy’s defense capability against the Chinese communist government, according to (more…)