According to Taipei National Security Official, Beijing is seeking to limit US military presence in the region and shift it ...

If we want a wall of democracies to endure from Korea to Australia, we must build it with those democracies while they still ...

Few geographic concepts carry more weight in modern military strategy than the First Island Chain. Stretching in a sweeping arc from the Kuril Islands through Japan, the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, the ...

The Pentagon’s policy chief has declared the first island chain stretching from Japan through Taiwan to the Philippines the U.S. military’s primary strategic focus, tying that priority to the recent ...

For the first time outside Japanese territory, Japan fired a Type 88 anti-ship missile during the Balikatan exercise on the Philippine island of Luzon, while U.S. Marines deployed Naval Strike ...

Coast guard vessels from Japan and China engaged in a confrontation on July 7 in the waters near the disputed islands known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan and the Diaoyu Dao in China. The latest ...

Putin’s visit to the strategically important Kuril Islands is a China–Russia strategy to counter the U.S.–Japan alliance in the region, analysts said. When Russian President Vladimir Putin visited a ...

This article first appeared on Pacific Forum and is republished with kind permission. Read the original here. The US-China relationship stands at a ...

Article Summary An analysis of Japan's rapidly advancing domestic production and deployment of defense drones, viewed from the perspective of China's security and military strategy. It explains in sim ...

The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This ...