No GPS? No satellite TV? No radar? Russia and China say they have found ways to boost their own signals — and jam others. Northern European nations have this year been complaining of unexplained ‘outages’ of vital GPS systems. Now we know it was actually a secret experiment with the Chinese to modify the Earth’s […]

President Xi Jinping said China would stick to its policy agenda, despite pressure from the U.S. and others to allow more competition in its economic system. Xi told an audience of party officials, military leaders and entrepreneurs in a speech Tuesday that “no one is in the position to dictate to the Chinese people what […]

TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet has approved a revised version of the National Defense Program Guidelines, which set out the country’s defense capability targets over 10-year periods. https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Five-things-to-know-about-Japan-s-new-and-bigger-defense-plan

Beijing’s US$2 billion commitment at the facility unsettles US military strategists Political considerations concerning Chinese investment in Israel’s third-biggest port may be the reason behind the Israeli government’s decision to review a deal that gives Beijing a majority stake in the facility, analysts said. The assessment came after Israel’s national security cabinet was reported to […]

In this Sept. 23, 2015, file photo, Chinese Coast Guard members approach Filipino fishermen as they confront each other off Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, also called the West Philippine Sea. AP FILE PHOTO MANILA, Philippines—A possible armed confrontation over the disputed maritime areas in the South China Sea is on the top […]

It has been just five years since China initiated its major land reclamation in the South China Sea, and the country has already shifted the territorial status quo in its favour—without facing any international pushback. The anniversary of the start of its island building underscores the transformed geopolitics in a corridor central to the international […]

This story is part of an ongoing series on U.S.-China relations, jointly produced by the South China Morning Post and POLITICO, with reporting from Asia and the United States. Rising tensions over Beijing’s accelerating military buildup in the South China Sea are stoking fears of a major-power clash between China and the United States — […]

The story is correct: Antonio Carpio thinks the Duterte administration did the right thing in signing a memorandum to work out an agreement with a Chinese state-run company to develop gas reserves in the West Philippine Sea. The views of the senior associate justice of the Supreme Court matter not only because he is an […]

The structure identified on Bombay Reef, an atoll of the disputed Paracel Islands, in a Nov. 20, 2018 Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative report, “China Quietly Upgrades a Remote Reef,” is likely a fixed communication and surveillance platform known as an “Island-Reef Information System.” According to AMTI’s analysis, China had apparently installed the platform on the […]

It has been just five years since China initiated its major land reclamation in the South China Sea, and the country has already shifted the territorial status quo in its favor—without facing any international pushback. The anniversary of the start of its island building underscores the transformed geopolitics in a corridor central to the international […]