New PM Ishiba and ASEAN members shared a welcoming exchange of proposals in Vientiane. However, his first meeting with Chinese Premier Li Qiang appeared frosty.
A former Japan Ground SDF commander analyzes the factors behind the violation of Japan's airspace by a Chinese intelligence-gathering aircraft in late August.
The images show upgrades to the pier, helipad for shipborne aircraft, and training grounds at the Yuhuan Chinese naval base, about 345 km from the Senkakus.
It is in Japan's national interest that the Philippines not become subservient to China and prospers as an independent nation that respects international law.
To counter China, the US and Japan need to make defense of the Ryukyu and the Senkaku Islands a joint affair and use their foreign investment...
China used the inauguration of the new Taiwan President Lai Ching-te as "a pretext for provocative and coercive measures."
Contrary to China's claims, Japan incorporated the Senkaku Islands as vacant territory and its effective control over them went unchallenged for a long time.
The Japan-US-Philippine trilateral focused on deterring China, which had trampled on international law in the South and East China Seas and the Taiwan Strait.
After Kishida addressed the US Congress, the three leaders, met in a tripartite summit focused on China's threatening stance in East Asia and the Indo-Pacific.
China continues to bully its neighbors through lawfare. The most recent example is when a Chinese speedboat crossed the Taiwan Strait's median line in February.
Suspicions abound concerning a Chinese "fishing boat" without papers or fishing gear in Taiwan's restricted waters. Could it have been a Chinese spy ship?
Chinese media criticism of Japan's defense budget is sadly ironic. It's the CCP's military expansion and unilateralism that pose the greatest challenge to Asia.
