Senkaku Islands

Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara has asked for a review of ODA to China. So what’s behind the rethink?

China’s assertiveness has alarmed many of its neighbours. Does a foot stamping foreign policy risk creating a counter-coalition?

Will plans for maritime talks between top Chinese and Japanese officials help avoid spats over the Senkaku Islands?

A range of competing interests complicates island territorial disputes between Japan, China and South Korea.

In the third in our series on Asia-Pacific navies, Alessio Patalano argues that Japan has had no choice but to develop a powerful navy.

Hu Jintao will be in Washington next week. But improved ties with the US won’t change Chinese discomfort with Washington’s hedging in Asia.

After a year of tension with its neighbours, is China starting to soften its foreign policy and military tone?

CNN misses a chance to be the first outlet for video showing collision between a Chinese trawler and JCG boats.

Recent tensions between China and the West are likely a sign of things to come. Western policymakers will have to get used to it.

An alleged halt in rare earth element exports to Japan put world governments on notice. Did China push too hard, too fast?

Naoto Kan reiterates his ‘firm’ position at a meeting with Hu Jintao on the sidelines of the APEC summit.

Was the JCG officer’s decision to leak footage of a maritime incident on Youtube ‘duty’ or ‘humanity’?