As China catches up with the West in technology and relies increasingly on cyberspace for business and security, it may seek a cyberspace detente.

The unipolar moment of global military supremacy for the U.S. after the Cold War ended with the Soviet Union collapse appears to have been fleeting.

The U.S. and Japan, despite domestic uncertainties, had better consider how they'll react if the Senkaku Islands start a military conflict with China.

China's "historic rights" claims in the South China Sea have prompted Southeast Asian nations to argue that China is flouting international law.

When China destroyed one of its own satellites in space six years ago, it alarmed many other Asia-Pacific countries that have invested heavily in orbiting satellites for telecommunications, Earth observation and scientific research. China’s action caused particular concern in the United States, Japan, Australia, ...

China recently opened its domestic satellite navigation network to commercial use across the Asia-Pacific region. The move underscored China’s emergence as an independent space power challenging the primacy of the United States, Russia, Europe and Japan. The network offers a still-to-be-proven alternative in the ...

The entrenched notion that the world will soon start running short of oil was jolted earlier this year when an expert study concluded that, contrary to what most people believe, oil-supply capacity is expanding so fast that it will outpace consumption by a wide ...

North American natural gas companies, in the midst of tapping vast new reserves from underground shale rock, are looking to energy-hungry Asia as the main future market for the cleanest burning fossil fuel. But even as a study commissioned by the U.S. government and ...

A recent report on the humdrum subject of plans to build new coal-burning plants to generate electricity helps to explain why Asia — led by China and India — is now at the epicenter of concern about global warming and climate change. As policymakers ...

China’s recent conduct in its bitter dispute with Japan over the ownership of islands, fisheries and seabed resources in the East China Sea raises some geopolitical storm warnings for Southeast Asia. While often seen as separate issues, the conflicting sovereignty claims of China and ...