Could China’s new magnetic wake detection technology mark the end of stealth submarine warfare? Recent Chinese research suggests it might. This month, South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that researchers at Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) in Xian, China, have...

From the massive-scale retreat of 1949 to the crises over Quemoy, the ROC’s armed forces have long symbolized perseverance amidst adversity. However, amid Xi Jinping’s increasing pressure on Taiwan through China’s recent Joint Sword Exercises, ADIZ incursions and cognitive...

Over the past few weeks the new US president, Donald Trump, has repeatedly claimed that the United States should “take back” the Panama Canal and that it should assume control of Greenland – one way or another. He has...

Since Beijing and Washington imposed tariffs on each other’s goods this month, Western media have been closely monitoring whether the trade war will hurt China’s supply of medicines to the United States and result in drug price hikes. After...

Following Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the US needs to “take back” the Panama canal from Chinese control, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, visited Panama to demand the country reduce China’s influence. On the surface, it seems...

India and Indonesia are apparently near a deal that will see the former to supply the latter with the BrahMos supersonic missile, a potential game-changer for security dynamics vis-à-vis-China in the southern reaches of the South China Sea. A...

TOKYO – So far, China has had a much better-than-feared experience with the Donald Trump 2.0 presidency. In fact, Xi Jinping’s Communist Party is probably thrilled to see Trump roiling global markets, torching democratic alliances and trashing the soft...

Amid the military posturing, economic sanctions, and political power struggles shaping the US-China rivalry, intellectual property (IP) disputes remain a major battleground. In January 2025, Chinese company DeepSeek’s latest AI model helped wipe US$1 trillion off the US stock...

The Taiwan issue was originally an internal Chinese problem, leftover from China’s Civil War. Over the years, however, it has taken on international dimensions with the US serving as the self-governing island’s de facto protector. With China now a...

The website for the United States Agency for International Development (USAid), the world’s biggest aid donor, has gone dark. Donald Trump’s new administration plans to place the autonomous agency under the control of the State Department. The secretary of...

China’s unveiling of a sleek, sail-less mini-submarine signals a bold leap in stealth warfare. At the same time, it raises questions about the vessel’s value in a potential Taiwan blockade and whether sheer quantity can outweigh quality concerns in...

DeepSeek, a relatively unknown Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up until late January, has shaken the world with its low-cost, high-power model. DeepSeek’s success – seen in its recent No. 1 ranking on Apple’s app store– has driven a massive...

Chinese people around the world have just celebrated the Lunar New Year, which this year runs from January 28 to February 4. It is the biggest festival of the year in China, signaling the start of spring, and this is...

In a hectic 24 hours of trade diplomacy, US President Donald Trump has paused his threatened 25% tariffs on US imports from Canada and Mexico, while keeping 10% tariffs on imports from China. Australian companies with operations in Canada...

TOKYO — Few anticipated the self-control that Donald Trump appears to be exercising toward China this week. While North American allies Canada and Mexico are looking at 25% tariffs, arch-rival China got away with just 10%. No one is...

Much attention has focused on China’s recent approval of a massive hydropower dam but less has been said about the next crucial step in the country’s water management strategy – the creation of a national water grid. Will it...

WASHINGTON – The year 2024 was rough and 2025 won’t be any smoother. How rough things get depends mostly on Xi Jinping. He won’t be letting up, and he’s got a powerful military behind him—no matter the economic challenges...

Donald Trump’s second term is off to a combative start, and the first casualty may be America’s own influence.  His sweeping tariff escalation, including 25% duties on imports from Mexico and Canada, a 10% levy on Canadian energy and...

Mitsubishi Electric, the Japanese maker of programmable logic controllers and other industrial automation equipment, plans to establish complete supply chains in China to compete more effectively in local markets and avoid problems that might arise from US trade restrictions....

China’s military may be modernizing rapidly, but deep-rooted structural flaws, political control and a lack of combat experience could limit its battlefield effectiveness in a potential war with the US and its allies. Last month, the RAND Corporation think...

BANGKOK – Beijing and Bangkok are trying to stop criminal gangs from China scamming and kidnapping Chinese travelers in Thailand, causing frightened Chinese to cancel their holidays to this tourist-dependent nation, which they increasingly perceive as lawless and dangerous....

China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is reportedly building a new command center in the capital, Beijing, that, upon completion, will be at least 10 times larger than the US Pentagon. Financial Times said that the construction of the mega-sized facility, which...

America has financed a current account deficit that bloated to US$1.2 trillion in 2024 by selling tech stocks to foreigners. Tech stocks, meanwhile, are trading at valuations not seen since 2000, when the NASDAQ Composite began a descent that...

The challenge posed to America by China’s DeepSeek artificial intelligence (AI) system is profound, calling into question the US’ overall approach to confronting China. DeepSeek offers innovative solutions starting from an original position of weakness. America believed that by...

The Philippines’ high-stakes gamble of offering to remove US medium-range missiles in exchange for China’s restraint in contested waterways puts Manila at the center of a geopolitical storm where shifting alliances and great-power pragmatism could make or break its...