“China was, is, and will always be a good neighbor,” China’s leader Xi Jinping told ASEAN representatives in a November 2021 virtual meeting, after a series of conflicts over Beijing’s territorial claims in the South China Sea had raised tensions...
Many are fearful that Xi Jinping’s ability to awe his visitors with over-the-top manifestations of pomp and ceremony will turn Donald Trump to Jell-o. But having watched Trump arrive in Japan yesterday on the first leg of his five-country trip,...
China hit back on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted he was “very disappointed” in China following Pyongyang's latest missile test, saying the problem did not arise in China and that all sides need to work for a solution.
A rising Chinese presence in the Indian Ocean has prompted the largest naval exercise the region has seen in more than two decades. The United States, Japan and India have deployed front-line warships, submarines, and aircraft as part of the tri-...
Japan's parliament passes the most sweeping changes to Japan's defense policy since World War II.
“When the Chinese people and the Chinese nation were in peril, the United States came to the rescue and asked for nothing in return. The U.S. never occupied a single inch of Chinese territory, never reaped any particular reward.”...
After a brief but frightening setback for proponents, U.S. congressional leaders looked set on May 13 to pass...
Obama said a strong U.S.-Japan alliance should not be seen as a provocation to China.
As long as Japan refuses to face WWII atrocities, the world community will never loosen the screw.
U.S.-Japan talks mainly served to throw into relief concerns about China.
But Japan cannot credibly help the U.S. to counter China in Asia if it seeks to repudiate criticism of its past.
The course charted by China’s reemergence as a great power over the next few decades represents the primary strategic challenge for the U.S.-Japan security alliance and for the East Asian security landscape writ large. If China’s economic,...
Some observors say the decline may be due to a reluctance to involve the U.S. in Sino-Japanese disputes.
With China's share in global trade increasing rapidly, some argued in 2002-03 that China was exporting deflation to other countries as it was dumping cheap goods in mature markets. Later, others argued that China was sucking in commodities and...
