Japan, China eye May talks on maritime crisis management mechanism
Japan and China envision holding a meeting in Singapore around May to discuss a maritime crisis management mechanism aimed at avoiding clashes around East China Sea islands, diplomatic sources said. At the meeting of senior officials, the two nations will aim to agree on how ...
Chinese defense spending slows but still tops GDP growth rate
China's central government will increase defense spending at a slower pace than last year as President Xi Jinping overhauls the military and seeks to stamp out the corruption that hinders the country's combat readiness. The defense budget will rise about 10 percent this year, in ...
Japanese air patrols over South China Sea would be 'welcome': Pentagon
The U.S. Defense Department raises eyebrows by stating that Japanese air patrols over the politically sensitive South China Sea would be “welcome.”
SDF admiral urges prompt action on crisis management pact with China
Adm. Katsutoshi Kawano, the nation's highest-ranking military officer, has urged the early start of a "crisis management" mechanism with China amid conflicting claims with Japan over the uninhabited Senkaku Islands off Taiwan. Relations between China and Japan, the world's second- and third-largest economies, have also ...
Japan, China foreign ministers in last-ditch talks over Abe-Xi meeting
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida held formal talks Saturday with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, to make last-minute arrangements for a meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping at this week's APEC summit in Beijing. The discussions between Kishida and Wang took ...
Abe Yasukuni offering followed by China coast guard visit to Senkakus
Chinese boats sail into waters around the disputed Senkaku Islands after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe angers Beijing by sending an offering to Yasukuni Shrine.
Defense Ministry eyes space as new missile detection frontier
The Defense Ministry plans to use space more effectively to detect early signs of ballistic missile launches by North Korea and bolster Japan's defensive capabilities, a draft of its new space policy showed Friday. In the basic policy to be formally adopted by the end ...
China says Japanese fighter jets shadowed its planes on patrol over disputed waters
Japanese fighter jets shadowed Chinese aircraft patrolling over disputed waters, China's Ministry of Defense said on Thursday, in the latest flare-up of a spat over air space that has deepened a rift between the two countries. Tension has been high between Asia's two largest economies ...
Taiwan is building a $100 million port next to an airstrip on the lone island it administers in the disputed South China Sea, a move that is drawing hardly any reaction from the most assertive player in the bitterly contested waters — China. The reason, ...
Nonbinding Pacific maritime deal seen as road map to averting conflict
Countries embroiled in territorial rows in the East and South China Seas agreed Tuesday to abide by a maritime communications deal to try to ensure accidental naval altercations do not develop into a conflict. But military officers said the non-binding accord, signed by more than ...
China will increase military spending by 12.2 percent this year, the government says, partly to beef up coastal and air defenses and to develop more high-tech weapons.
