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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Sep 28, 2022

Kamala Harris pledges that U.S. will 'continue to support Taiwan's self-defense'

The U.S. vice president lambasted China's ongoing “pressure campaign” aimed at Taiwan during a visit to the U.S. naval base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture.

JAPAN / Politics

Sep 27, 2022

Taiwan VIPs' visit for Abe funeral signals deepening relationship with Japan

Japan included 'Taiwan' among the names of countries read aloud during the funeral — part of recent moves that point to deepening ties between Tokyo and Taipei.

ASIA PACIFIC

Sep 25, 2022

North Korea launches missile ahead of U.S. vice president's visit to region

Japan's defense chief said that the apparent ballistic missile may have flown on an irregular trajectory and was believed to have landed outside the country's exclusive economic zone.

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS

Sep 20, 2022

Gaffe or not, Biden's Taiwan defense remarks stir confusion

For the fourth time since taking office, Biden this week appeared to upend the U.S. policy of “strategic ambiguity' toward the self-ruled island.

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Sep 19, 2022

Biden says U.S. would defend Taiwan in ‘unprecedented attack’

The U.S. president's remarks on defending the democratic island in the event of a Chinese invasion were his fourth and most explicit statement on the issue since taking office.

JAPAN / Politics

Sep 18, 2022

South Korea says leaders' summit with Japan still on

Japan's conservative Sankei Shimbun daily reported late Saturday that Tokyo was working to postpone the meeting, citing multiple Japanese government officials.

WORLD / ANALYSIS

Sep 16, 2022

How Ukraine took the fight to Russia

Ukraine has stunned the world with a lightning counteroffensive that began earlier this month and saw them retake broad swaths of land from Russian forces.

ASIA PACIFIC

Sep 7, 2022

Russia looking to buy 'millions' of North Korean rockets and artillery

The U.S. said any deal would violate U.N. sanctions on Pyongyang and described the move as the latest sign of Moscow's “desperation” as its bloody war in Ukraine grinds on.

ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS

Sep 7, 2022

'New normal' as Chinese warplanes push across Taiwan Strait median line

The push could help Beijing achieve two goals: delegitimizing Taipei's claim to statehood and exhausting the island's military resources.

ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS

Sep 1, 2022

Past as prologue: Will North Korea's Kim return to nuke testing?

As South Korea-U.S. military drills end and with key anniversaries looming on Sept. 9 and Oct. 10, Kim may conclude the time is ripe to order a test of what could be a tactical warhead.

JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS

Aug 31, 2022

Japan is seeking its biggest defense budget ever. This may not be as dramatic as it sounds.

The Defense Ministry is seeking u00a55.59 trillion for the next fiscal year — a figure that reflects an established trend rather than a break from the past, experts say.

JAPAN / Politics

Aug 29, 2022

Japan defense chief says world has entered 'a new era of crisis'

Yasukazu Hamada is expected to play a key role in shepherding through some of the biggest changes in Japanese defense policy in nearly a decade.

ASIA PACIFIC

Aug 28, 2022

U.S. warships sail through Taiwan Strait for first time since Pelosi visit

The Chinese military slammed the U.S. for hyping the warships' sailing, saying that the entire operation had been monitored.

JAPAN

Aug 24, 2022

Six months on, Ukraine war still reverberating across Japan and Indo-Pacific

Vladimir Putin's decision to follow through on threats of invasion has reshaped Asia's already tense security environment.

JAPAN

Aug 21, 2022

Japan weighs deploying over 1,000 longer-range missiles amid China tensions, report says

The Defense Ministry is looking to extend the range of its planned standoff weapons to more than 1,000 km in a bid to narrow a cavernous “missile gap” with China.

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Aug 18, 2022

U.S. envoy vows military operations will continue in Taiwan Strait despite Chinese warnings

The top U.S. diplomat for Asia said any moves by China to prevent the operations would be “deeply destabilizing,” a day after Beijing's envoy to Washington warned against such operations.

ASIA PACIFIC

Aug 17, 2022

North Korea fires two cruise missiles as U.S. and South Korea prepare for military drills

The move comes after leader Kim Jong Un declared victory in his country's battle against COVID-19, a pronouncement that could clear a path to more weapons tests.

JAPAN / Politics

Aug 16, 2022

U.S. and Japan defense chiefs vow cooperation in 'any situation' amid Taiwan concerns

Yasukazu Hamada and Lloyd Austin 'strongly condemned' China's launching of missiles into waters near Japan's southwestern islands as part of exercises aimed at Taiwan.

JAPAN / Politics

Aug 16, 2022

Japan, South Korea and U.S. hold first trilateral missile defense drills since 2017

The three countries' navies held the drill from Aug. 8 through Sunday off the coast of Hawaii, with the participants sharing “tactical data link information.'

JAPAN

Aug 10, 2022

Kishida shuffles key Cabinet and LDP posts amid sagging approval ratings

The reshuffle took place a month earlier than expected and comes amid myriad challenges for the prime minister at home and abroad.

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