The COFAs bolster the Island nations and secure most of an "east-west corridor" from Hawaii to the western edge of the Pacific essential for national security.
With pivotal elections in Taiwan and the US and China's hegemonic promises, predictions are for turmoil that requires democracies to demonstrate firmer resolve.
The export to the US of Patriot missiles made under US license shows Japan is getting over its defense allergy, but it still must do more...
On the Osprey crash, what concerns are hype, and why did it take PM Kishida a week to express sympathy for the death of 8 Americans...
The pace of China's military and nuclear weapons buildup has been unprecedented. Japan, Australia and South Korea especially need to stay alert to the risks.
China has been conducting non-kinetic "unrestricted warfare" against West for decades. The People's Liberation Army is only for if needed to finish things off.
Like Japan, the Philippines is part of the "first island chain" and strategic terrain for defending the region's small democratic bloc from an aggressive China.
The US imagined it would never face a serious enemy again. But trouble in global hotspots calls for a reassessment and for other free nations to...
As China continues to rachet up pressure on the Senkaku Islands, Japan and the US must further assert their presence, including with personnel on the Senkakus.
As Xi Jinping consolidates his power and lays the groundwork for regional domination, the US seems intent on simply talking things out — much to Xi's...
It's great to see the Self-Defense Force joining a major multilateral exercise but this training is needed where the trouble is coming, in and around Japan.
South Korea and Japan are working together on North Korea with the US, and that's progress. But incentives are needed to keep old issues from interfering.