Threats
The Arctic Could Be the Next South China Sea, Says Coast Guard Commandant
Rich with energy resources, minerals and strategic positioning, the warming Arctic is ripe for territorial disputes, Adm. Zukunft warns.
Threats
North Korea Appears to Have Launched Another Missile
Preliminary data suggest the test vehicle can travel farther than the ICBM launched earlier this month.
Threats
Pentagon: Beijing Is Arming Its Manmade Islands in South China Sea
With its reef expansion apparently finishing up, China is working to extend the reach of its military power.
Ideas
What Xi Jinping Wants
China's leader is determined to turn his country into 'the biggest player in the history of the world.' Can he do it while avoiding a dangerous collision with America?
Threats
North Korea Is Helping China in the South China Sea—Whether It Knows It or Not
Pyongyang’s rocket tests have elbowed Beijing’s land grab out of the spotlight — just as the Chinese might have hoped.
Ideas
If Trump Wants China’s Help, He Needs to Build Trust. Here’s How.
Drop the focus on carrots and sticks, and start talking about the security issues that matter to Beijing.
Science & Tech
China Is Creating a DNA Database Straight Out of Science Fiction
The Ministry of Public Security has collected the genetic information of more than 40 million people — and counting.
Ideas
Don’t Fear Pakistan’s Participation in China’s ‘New Silk Road’
U.S. interests can be served no matter whether the mega-project’s subcontinental branch succeeds or fails.
Threats
Rex Tillerson Spells Out US Foreign Policy
The Trump administration’s 'America First' agenda just became a little clearer.
Ideas
There Is a Peaceful Way Out of the North Korea Crisis
Kim Jong Un’s nuclear and missile programs represent one of the most dangerous challenges since the end of the Cold War. But there are opportunities to stop it.
Ideas
How Trump Could Get China's Help on North Korea
Beijing is not going to pressure Pyongyang just because he tells them to.
Ideas
Trump Blew It at His China Summit
The U.S. president’s performance last week suggested to his Chinese counterpart that he is all talk, and can be pushed around with subtlety and patience.
Science & Tech
As Trump Meets China, US Worries About Beijing’s Supercomputers and Industrial Espionage
Network breaches? NSA research director says we ain’t seen nothing yet.
Ideas
A Bad Time for a Trump-China Summit
A former South Korean lawmaker says the White House needs to strengthen its relationship with Seoul before deciding to grant the same level of respect to Beijing.
Threats
Duterte Seems Alarmingly Resigned to Beijing's New Building in the South China Sea
'What will I do? Declare a war against China? I can, but we’ll all lose our military and policemen tomorrow,' President Duterte said this week.
Threats
China Won't Solve Washington's Problem with Kim Jong Un
Beijing’s current policy risks such a disaster, but the alternatives are hardly more palatable.
Business
Chinese Military Officers Crash US Air Force Conference in Florida
The three officers, armed with cameras, took a stroll around an exhibit hall of new weapons and technology.
Threats
Now China Wants All Subs in the South China Sea to Ask Permission, Surface, Show Flag
Beijing's proposed revisions to maritime law, if adopted, could set up a nuclear naval confrontation with the United States in international waters China claims to own.
Policy
'Even a Shining City on a Hill Needs Walls': Senator Tom Cotton
A Republican hawk acclimates to the Trump presidency—and threatens to reconsider the One China policy.
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