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De-escalation difficult for US and China, say analysts, amid widespread support in Taiwan for potential trip

Former Secretary of State for Donald Trump Mike Pompeo is offering his full support for House Speaker Nancy Pelosis trip to Taiwan.

Evan S. Medeiros is a nonresident senior fellow in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Taiwan's capital is staging air raid drills and its military is mobilizing for routine exercises

Taiwan’s capital staged air raid drills and its military mobilized for routine defense exercises.

Chinas authoritarian ruling Communist Party considers democratic, self-ruling Taiwan its own territory, to be annexed by force if necessary, and regularly advertises that threat by staging military exercises and flying warplanes into Taiwans air defence identification zone or across the centre line of the 180-km -wide Taiwan Strait.  

Modernization of Japan's forces would support Washington's effort to bolster trilateral ties with South Korea and Japan, analysts say

As South Korea and Japan agree to improve bilateral ties, experts say the latter's possible constitutional revision allowing military expansion should be in line with the Biden administration's effort to forge a strong Washington-Seoul-Tokyo trilateral front against the threats of China and North Korea. South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin and Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa…

July 8 was a muggy day in the ancient capital of Japan. Shinzo Abe, the most powerful figure in Japanese politics, was delivering a stump speech for a local Liberal Democratic Party candidate in front of the Nara Kintetsu railway station when...

A China expert sees hardening positions and growing capabilities as destabilizing forces in the Washington-Beijing relationship.