Tracking the World, One Axis at a Time
China’s foreign ministry on Wednesday said it had complained to Japan about Tokyo’s newly released defence white paper, accusing it of playing up a Chinese threat and making “unwarranted comments”…
Prime Minister Russell Dlamini has held bilateral talks with President Lai Ching-te of the Republic of China (Taiwan) at the Presidential Office in Taipei, where the two leaders reaffirmed the…
China began two days of live-fire drills from Thursday in some parts of the Taiwan Strait near the shores of its southeastern province of Fujian. – The news comes a…
A Chinese navy destroyer conducted live-fire drills in waters southwest of Japan’s remote Okinotori Island early on Sunday while operating alongside Russian naval vessels, Japan’s Joint Staff said. – Japan’s…
Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, receives a pair of endangered red pandas from China. – This is the first exchange of animals in more than a decade as tension between both nations…
The growing strategic partnership between Japan and the Philippines is no longer a peripheral development in the Indo-Pacific. What began as maritime cooperation and coast guard coordination has evolved into…
Japan’s Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi on Sunday rejected accusations of “new militarism” by Tokyo and criticised China for rapidly expanding its military with little transparency, underscoring mounting tensions between the…
The US has put a $14bn arms sale to Taiwan on hold, with acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao telling a Senate hearing that the pause is to ensure sufficient weaponry…
Member states of the World Health Organization on Monday rejected a proposal to invite Taiwan to its annual assembly in Geneva after China said it would block its participation. –…
Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te urged the Trump administration to continue arms sales to the self-governing island in order to ensure “regional peace and security” in a Facebook post Sunday. –…