On May 26, the leaders of China, Japan and South Korea will gather in Seoul for a trilateral summit, the first since 2019. Chinese Premier Li Qiang, Japanese Prime Minister …
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Thursday his country does not have a “China-phobia” policy and wants to engage both Beijing and Washington, expressing hopes for both powers to …
While there is considerable public cynicism against the opposition after the brief and unspectacular Democratic Party of Japan government that ruled between September 2009 and December 2012, the public is …
“Certainly, I expect Beijing to take this as a direct challenge,” said Lance Gatling, president of Nexial Research and an aerospace and defence analyst. “For years, the Japanese and Chinese …
Japan’s ruling party lost a special election Prime Minister Fumio Kishida had described in part as a judgment on himself, months ahead of a party leadership vote. Public anger over …
Former Japanese prime minister Taro Aso, a senior figure in the country’s ruling party, met with Donald Trump on Tuesday, becoming the latest US ally seeking to establish ties with …
Japan’s coastguard has extended an initiative designed to help other nations’ counter Chinese expansion in the South China Sea to two Pacific island countries: the Marshall Islands and Micronesia. The …
“He wants his people to focus on his achievements rather than his ancestors’ feats,” Hong told This Week in Asia. A pedestrian walks along a street in Pyongyang on April …
A cooperation agreement by the Philippines, the United States and Japan will change the dynamic in the South China Sea and the region, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr said on …
The statement also expressed “steadfast” opposition to “the dangerous and coercive use of Coast Guard and maritime militia vessels in the South China Sea”, a reference to Beijing’s strategy of …