It looks like the United States Forces Korea (USFK) are getting a new mission without being relieved of any of their old responsibilities. On January 4, Nikkei Asia reported comments by the USFK commander...
Chinese fighter pilots have upped the ante in the East China Sea. On December 6, The Wall Street Journal reported that two Chinese J-15 fighters from the aircraft carrier Liaoning twice trained their fire-control...
Guancha, a Chinese state-run media outlet, openly called for nuclear strikes on Japan after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told the Japanese legislature earlier this month that Tokyo might defend...
China is increasingly isolating Taiwan to force the island’s capitulation. On November 13, the Chinese Foreign Ministry strongly condemned remarks by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Japan’s...
China’s psychological warfare on Taiwan is intensifying. Following its largest military exercises around Taiwan in three decades last December, Beijing has launched a new series of military drills. On...
This commentary is part of the Exploring New Horizons: Japan’s Defense Priorities project, a CSIS Japan Chair initiative featuring analysis by leading Japanese and American scholars examining the implications...
The United States Innovation and Competition Act (USICA) of 2021, which passed the Senate in June, calls for $52 billion in appropriations over five years to support semiconductor manufacturing as well...
‘In a world following silent biological warfare, the instigating nations will be the quickest to recover, and ultimately lead the new world order. If this is indeed a sci-fi scenario, caused by Chinese...
Japan has long controlled the Senkaku Islands, but the CCP is trying aggressively to stake a claim.
The EU undermines its own interests and those of its ally across the pond
Recent wargames suggest the U.S. Navy would have a hard time fighting China, but this might be nothing compared to infighting Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and his successors will have to manage to build...
High in the Himalayan mountains, Chinese soldiers ambushed Indian troops this week, resulting in a brutal battle on the Indian side of their shared border. Twenty Indians were killed, while China won’t...
The clash in the Galwan river valley will exacerbate concerns regarding the CCP’s intentions.
The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday sanctioned two individuals and three companies for helping North Korea evade sanctions via ship-to-ship (STS) transfers. While this action reminds Pyongyang that Washington...
For the second time this month, an Iranian tanker has delivered nearly a million barrels of crude oil to Syria, relieving the...
Bloomberg has reversed its prior assessment that Iranian oil exports continued to plunge in September, halting – but not reversing – the sharp decline that began after the U.S. announced...
The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) requires the continual operation of an Automatic Ident...
Today, the Treasury Department issued its “largest North Korea-related sanctions tranche to date” against 27 entitie...