China is deploying dozens of ships in its biggest maritime mobilisation around Taiwan in years, Taipei said Tuesday, after Beijing voiced fury at President Lai Ching-te’s recent visit to the United States. Taiwanese forces were on high alert in anticipation of Beijing’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) staging war games in response to Lai’s US stopovers…
The Chinese military has designated seven zones along its eastern coast facing the self-ruled island of Taiwan for drills from Monday to Wednesday, Newsweek‘s map shows. The Taiwanese Defense Ministry said on Monday that China, which views Taiwan as part of its territory despite never having governed it, has set up reserved airspace zones off…
A total of five Chinese warships, including destroyers and frigates, were spotted transiting waterways near Japan, a United States security treaty ally in East Asia, in the past week. The Defense Ministry of Japan reported the Chinese naval movements near the country’s territorial waters, which are measured up to 12 nautical miles from its coasts….
Long-standing territorial and political tensions appear to be fuelling the intense mutual dislike between the populations of Japan and China, with one observer tracing the “shift in attitude” among Chinese people to Xi Jinping coming to power in Beijing. The poor sentiments were highlighted in a poll published on Monday that found 89 per cent…
China claimed it and Russia did not “target any third party” while their nuclear-capable bombers patrolled near the allies of the United States in the western Pacific Ocean. According to the defense ministry in Japan, the joint Russia–China air patrols were carried out on Friday over the Sea of Japan, also known as the East…
A U.S. aircraft carrier entered the contested South China Sea this week, following a surge deployment that had seen it retasked to the Middle East for combat operations. In China, two aircraft carriers were spotted underway in the country’s coastal waters. A Japanese destroyer, bearing the same name as an aircraft carrier that took part…
An American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier on Friday returned to its home port in Japan, a security ally of the United States, for forward deployment to patrol waters near China. USS George Washington, one of 10 Nimitz-class aircraft carriers in service with the U.S. Navy, arrived home at Yokosuka naval base in Japan, located within the…
A Chinese spy plane unintentionally entered Japanese airspace in August while taking evasive action after encountering turbulence over the contested East China Sea, Beijing explained to Tokyo. The August 26 incident, which occurred off the Danjo Islands in the southwestern prefecture of Nagasaki and lasted for about two minutes, was the first such intrusion on…
This week, a United States aircraft carrier arrived in waters near the Korean Peninsula for a trilateral exercise as North Korea strengthens its military cooperation with Russia. While tensions between China and the Philippines remain high over the South China Sea, a regional-based Chinese “flattop” has yet to return to its base as of Monday,…
Beijing has attributed an incursion by a Chinese military aircraft into Japan’s airspace in late August to an unspecified “unexpected obstruction”, Japanese news agency Kyodo reported on the weekend, citing diplomatic sources. The explanation comes amid plans on both sides for an imminent meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba,…