By Christian Shepherd and Philip Wen | BEIJING China pledged more support for its military on Sunday including strengthening maritime and air defenses as it takes steps to safeguard its sovereignty, but in a …
By Ben Blanchard and J.R. Wu | BEIJING/TAIPEI Chinese jets and warships carried out exercises near Taiwan and into the Western Pacific on Thursday, as the self-ruled island’s defense minister warned of a growing …
By Stanley White | TOKYO Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Friday he wants to use the U.S.-Japan economic dialogue as a platform to discuss rules for free trade and investment. Aso said …
By CHUN HAN WONG Updated March 2, 2017 12:21 p.m. ET 22 COMMENTS BEIJING—A meeting of nearly 3,000 lawmakers in Beijing is set to test the clout of Chinese President Xi Jinping, after he …
By Philip Wen and Benjamin Kang Lim | BEIJING When China rejuvenates its top leadership team toward the end of the year, sources close to senior leaders say President Xi Jinping could reveal his …
By EDWARD WONG Police officers in parts of the vast western Chinese region of Xinjiang have been ordering residents to hand over their passports since October, according to residents interviewed by telephone this week …
By TE-PING CHEN March 1, 2017 7:44 a.m. ET An Islamic State video appears to show recruits from China’s Uighur minority threatening to “avenge oppression,” feeding into Beijing’s assertion of a growing jihadist-terror threat. …
By CAROL E. LEE and ALASTAIR GALE March 1, 2017 5:30 p.m. ET An internal White House review of strategy on North Korea includes the possibility of military force or regime change to blunt …
Chinese state media have reacted with anger and boycott threats after the board of an affiliate of South Korea’s Lotte Group approved a land swap with the government that allows authorities to deploy a …
More than 10,000 armed police in China’s western Xinjiang region staged a mass rally in the capital Urumqi, state media said, as authorities rolled out a rapid-response air patrol system to quell unrest that …
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