As the struggle to control disputed islands and valuable offshore resources has intensified in the East and South China Seas over the past few years, the United States has said repeatedly that it does not take sides in the disagreements among Asian countries over ...

In the latest step in its naval modernization and expansion, China recently announced that it is accelerating serial production of an advanced destroyer. This will tilt the regional balance of power at sea in its favor and put it in a stronger position to ...

The tug of war over the South China Sea is seen mainly as a struggle among rival claimants —China, Taiwan and several Southeast Asian states — for control of valuable fisheries as well as seabed oil, natural gas and mineral resources. China’s claim to ...

Japan and South Korea, allies of the United States since World War II, are supposed to be part of an Asia-Pacific counterbalance to China’s growing power and its expansive maritime and island claims in East Asia’s seas. Instead, an upwelling of nationalism as the ...

Amid concerns about sagging growth in both advanced and developing economies, Japan — which is heavily dependent on Asian demand — may take heart from the region’s potential to drive a global revival. For centuries, less than 1 percent of the world’s population had ...

The United States is on the verge of approving a license later this month for the world’s first plant to enrich uranium on a commercial scale for civilian nuclear power reactors using laser technology developed by an Australian company. The Australian firm, Silex Systems ...

There is a saying in international diplomacy: Watch what countries do, rather than what they say. China’s recent actions in asserting its claims to ownership and other forms of jurisdiction over about 80 percent of the South China Sea speak louder than its oft-repeated ...

Japan’s ambassador to China warned last month that plans by the Tokyo municipal government to buy islands in the East China Sea claimed by Beijing but administered by Japan could trigger an “extremely grave crisis” between East Asia’s two top powers. Uichiro Niwa, a ...

China could easily grab control of the disputed Scarborough Shoal fishing grounds in the South China Sea using its increasingly modern and powerful armed forces. Chinese naval, air and amphibious units, working in unison, already have the capability to enforce Beijing’s claims of island ...

Just four years from now, China will pass a milestone. Its huge workforce will peak and start shrinking. This will make it more difficult for the world’s second largest economy to continue the turbo-charged growth that has played a key role in the rise ...