East China Sea

By reopening its territorial quarrel with India, China risks having to redirect resources from sea power back to land defense.

For a nation with little hope of winning a naval standoff, international law is a plausible alternative.

China is best advised to ensure that efforts to win local disputes don’t end up creating global problems.

China declaring the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands a “core interest” could make efforts at compromise even tougher.

Here are three intertwined reasons why Taipei and Tokyo’s deal matters in the long run.

As tensions mount in various hot spots throughout Asia, Australia’s PM pays China a visit.

While N. Korea dominates headlines, the Senkaku islands still loom over East Asia. Could Ban Ki-moon help?

While reports warn of China’s rising military budget and lack of transparency, numbers and hyped headlines often cloud the bigger picture.

“The EP-3 incident offered a foretaste of what the coming decade-plus would bring.”

Even as tensions between Beijing and Tokyo grow by the day, there are good reasons to believe outright conflict can be avoided.

Drama in the East China Sea between Tokyo and Beijing has gone from bad to worse.

Many have complained China’s military lacks a certain degree of transparency in its operations. That could be changing.