Six House Republicans have sent a letter to Vice President Kamala Harris urging her to meet with Taiwanese Vice President Lai Ching-te when he stops in the US next month on his way to and from Paraguay, one of the few countries that has diplomatic relations with...
The US Air Force tested a new missile system in the Pacific that gives cargo planes the ability to launch long-range cruise missiles that are normally fired by large bombers. The system, known as the Rapid Dragon, allows C-130 and C-17 cargo planes to drop a missile...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited the Pacific Island nation of Tonga for the first time on Wednesday and took aim at China, blasting Beijing's activities in the region as "predatory" and "problematic." "As China’s engagement in the region has grown, there has...
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Tuesday hit back at Japan over comments made by a Japanese official about Tokyo potentially assisting Taiwan in the event of a Chinese attack. Toshiro Ino, Japan's minister of state for defense, made the comments in an interview with...
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said Monday that Beijing would take countermeasures in response to the CIA saying it's making progress on rebuilding spy networks inside China after losing assets in the country over a decade ago. CIA Director William Burns made the...
China sent a record number of warships around Taiwan in a single day last week, topping a previous high set when the Chinese military responded to then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to the island in August 2022, The South China Morning Post reported. The...
Terry Guo, a Taiwanese billionaire and politician, has called for dialogue between Taiwan and China and criticized the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) for not engaging with Beijing. Guo, founder of the tech giant Foxconn, said in an op-ed for The Washington...
Senators Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) agreed on Sunday that NATO expansion into Asia was "inevitable" as the Western military alliance increasingly has its eyes on China. Both senators made the comments on NBC's Meet the Press. When asked by host...
Indonesian President Joko Widodo warned Friday that the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) can't become a "proxy" for any country as tensions between the US and China are soaring in the region. "ASEAN cannot be a competition, it can't be a...
A US Navy spy plane flew over the Taiwan Strait on Thursday as China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) was conducting drills to the south of Taiwan. The US Navy's Seventh Fleet announced the flight of the Navy P-8A Poseidon, and Taiwan's Defense Ministry said the plane...
