• Report: China is exporting digital control methods

    As it exports internet infrastructure, China is expanding its authoritarian model of the web, report says.

  • US and Japan boost defence ties with eye on China

    Joe Biden and Fumio Kishida also announced that Japan will put an astronaut on the Moon with Nasa.

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    Biden treats Japan PM to state visit with eye on China

    US President Joe Biden hosts a lavish state visit for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House on Wednesday, featuring a major upgrade in defense ties against China -- and music by Paul Simon.The concert will end a day that will see Biden and Kishida take a major step forward in defense ties.

  • Biden and Japan's Kishida forge new partnership, eyeing China and Russia

    'This is the most significant upgrade in our alliance since it was first established,' US President Joe Biden says after about two hours of talks that focused on the restive Indo-Pacific region and China's actions

  • China, Japan coast guard vessels patrol disputed East China Sea waters

    The China Coast Guard said on Friday it patrolled the "territorial waters" of Diaoyu Islands, also known in Japan as the Senkaku Islands, in the East China Sea. Japan Coast Guard said in a separate bulletin that its patrol boats had asked four Chinese coast guard vessels to leave "our

  • Japan, Philippines, US slam China's 'dangerous, aggressive' moves in South China Sea

    Japan, the Philippines and the United States voiced “serious concern” Thursday over China’s actions in the South China Sea, the nations’ leaders said, amid a territorial dispute that has become increasingly tense. “We express our serious concerns about the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) dangerous and aggressive behavior in the South China Sea,” according to […]

  • China constantly coerces Japan and Philippines, U.S. envoy to Japan Emanuel says

    China constantly uses coercion and pressures other countries, including Japan and the Philippines, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel said on Monday. Emanuel made the remark at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event in Washington days before U.S. President Joe Biden hosts Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and

  • ‘Serious concern’: Philippines, US, Japan unite vs China's provocations in South China Sea

    The Philippines, United States and Japan condemned the “dangerous and aggressive” behavior of the People’s Republic of China in the South China Sea.

  • Will China flood globe with EVs, green tech? What's behind latest US-China trade fight

    WASHINGTON (AP) — China's burgeoning production of electric cars and other green technologies has become a flashpoint in a new U.S.-China trade fight, highlighted by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen during her five-day visit to China and seized on by former President Donald Trump in incendiary remarks on the campaign trail. China has sharply ramped up its production of cheap electric vehicles, solar panels, and batteries just as the Biden administration has pushed through legislation supporting...

  • Japan debuts as a weapons exporter

    Japan has gone through a gradual process of dismantling its self-imposed ban on exporting lethal weapons, a process that reached a new plateau with last month’s decision to permit the export to third countries of the next-generation fighter aircraft to be developed jointly with the United Kingdom and Italy.When this policy change is read in conjunction with the U.S.-Japan Joint Leaders’ Statement issued on April 10, 2024, it is likely that Japan has agreed to jointly develop and produce missiles...

  • China's green-tech manufacturing powerhouse

    China has extended its manufacturing domination to clean energy industries in recent years, alongside a global push for climate change action, but that is starting to worry the United States, Europe and others. Washington is especially concerned about "overcapacity", where Chinese subsidies to industries such as solar, electric vehicles and

  • Japan's Kishida Slams China In Address To Congress

    Japan's Kishida Slams China In Address To Congress Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida delivered an address to Congress on Thursday and declared China the "greatest strategic challenge" facing the world. "Close coordination between Japan and the US is required more than ever to ensure that deterrence that our alliance provides remains credible and resilient," Kishida said, according to The South China Morning Post. Japanese Prime Minister...