Tucked deep within an operations center at a military base in Southwest Asia, where the United States and coalition partners coordinate operations against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, is a small room that keeps the U.S. and Russia from war, or at least their military forces from colliding in Syria.
The military of the Philippines has begun to take action against the nation’s Communist Party and its terrorist wing, the New People’s Army, after President Rodrigo Duterte announced he would stop seeking peace talks with the groups.
China’s state-run Global Times announced on Tuesday that experts see potential for the illegally-constructed floating nuclear power plants in the South China Sea to provide technology that “could be applied to military nuclear vessels.”
The latest issue of the National Interest asks if we are looking at “war in Asia” within the next decade or so. The question asked collectively by the headline articles is whether the multi-sided contest between China, the Koreas, and Japan can be resolved without someone, somewhere, pulling a trigger. The urgent question for U.S. policymakers is whether America can do anything to make overt hostilities less likely.
In the West, China’s cries for “socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era” have mostly been met with confusion.
China has sentenced a restaurant owner to 15 days in prison for allegedly hanging a Chinese flag upside down in his restaurant and using it as a curtain, an act police claim caused “an adverse effect in society.”
The head of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) Organisation Department, Chen Xi, warned in an editorial Thursday that some members of the party had shown sympathy towards “sorcery” and “Western concepts of the separation of powers,” a key “moral” failing to be eradicated.
“Everywhere we went, our foreign hosts greeted the American delegation and myself included with incredible warmth and hospitality and most importantly respect,” Trump said.
The communist government of China announced on Wednesday that it had signed 14 trade deals with the Philippines and offered over $22 million in aid to repair the city of Marawi, site of a failed attempt to establish an Islamic State “caliphate.”
President Donald Trump again mocked CNN, after his return to the United States from his 12-day trip to Asia.
Chinese officials and residents in a rural area of Jiangxi province have revealed a government plan to “melt the hard ice” in the hearts of Christians towards communism by denying them pivotal poverty relief packages if they do not replace images of Jesus in their households with photos of President Xi Jinping.
President Donald Trump teased an upcoming announcement prepared after his return to the White House on Tuesday night from his 12-day trip to Asia.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte joined in a performance of a Philippine love song during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) gala on Sunday night, then claimed President Donald Trump “ordered” him to sing.
For First Lady Melania Trump’s trip to Asia alongside President Donald Trump, the Slovenian-born former model brought out off-the-runway gowns and duds from some of her favorite luxury fashion designers.
President Donald Trump is sticking with his original statement in reaction to the Roy Moore story, although he appeared open to revisiting the situation.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has sanctioned a bloody drug war that features extrajudicial killing. He called Barack Obama a “son of a whore.” This week, he boasted that he murdered a man with his own hands.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte delivered an outrageous, hour-long speech to Philippine citizens in Vietnam Thursday in which he insulted President Obama, the EU, and “white people,” claimed to have threatened to “slap” a United Nations expert, and asserted that he had killed someone as a teenager.
President Donald Trump criticized China and the World Trade Organization during a speech at the APEC summit in Vietnam.
President Xi Jinping must be thanking his lucky stars that, at the moment of his rise to total power in China, a man as weak and clueless as Donald Trump is president of the United States.
Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte told reporters on Wednesday that he was prepared to tell his American counterpart, Donald Trump, to “lay off” if Trump challenged him on reports that his administration is violating the human rights of its citizens.
For two thousand years, the Chinese Empire has sought to overawe visiting barbarians with the magnificence of the imperial court. It still does today.
China’s communist state media published a piece praising President Donald Trump for his “little interest in empty diplomatic struggles” on Wednesday, as the American head of state joined his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on a tour Beijing’s Forbidden City.
Two weeks ago, Chinese dictator Xi Jinping gave a major speech at the opening of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party. While the title of his speech, “Secure a Decisive Victory in Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in All
Early Sunday at Yokota Air Base in Japan, President Donald Trump kicked off his tour of Asia by offering a warning that no dictator should “underestimate” the United States, which was apparently aimed at North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. “No one
President Donald Trump dismissed new criticism from former Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, saying he didn’t want to give them attention during his trip to Asia.
President Donald Trump vowed to step up attacks against Islamic State, following the terrorist attack in New York City.
While much of the world is focused on the ballistic missile and nuclear threat from North Korea, the U.S. military in the Pacific region is also concentrating on another potential foe: China.
“No, there are no planned meetings at this time,” Sanders replied when Breitbart News asked about a possible meeting between Roy Moore and the president.
Attorneys challenging human rights abuses, political persecution, and abuses of power within China are telling their stories of torture and imprisonment, more relevant than ever as President Xi Jinping assumed nearly unprecedented power over the nation.
Xi Jinping’s quest to strip communism of its Western roots continued in Chinese state media this week, with the nation’s Global Times adamantly asserting in a column Sunday that China is unlike the Soviet Union because it boasts superior “ancient traditions” to other societies.
China’s Communist Party opened its once-every-five-years Congress on Wednesday with an extensive speech from President Xi Jinping, who debuted plans for the nation extending into 2050 that include extensive military buildup, economic hegemony, and “sweeping victory” against “corruption,” often interpreted as any dissenting thought within the party.
Officials in the Philippines have confirmed the deaths of the leaders of the nation’s two Islamic State affiliates, Isnilon Hapilon of Abu Sayyaf and Omar Maute of the Maute group, in the besieged would-be “caliphate” capital of Marawi.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has experienced a dizzying plunge in popularity, with the polling company Social Weather Stations (SWS) issuing him a +48 approval rating in September, down 18 points from his rating in June.
Indian Defense Minister Nirmala Sitharaman waved at Chinese soldiers and taught them how to say “Namaste” during a recent visit to the India-China border amid tensions between the two rival nations.
A recent survey commissioned by the New York Times found that people who could find North Korea on a map were more likely to favor talks over military action. A glance at North Asia’s geography explains why.
North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, assessing South Korean opposition to his aggressive nuclear and missile programs, must believe his predecessors — father Kim Jong-il and grandfather Kim Il-sung — are out there working in the netherworld to do what they can to influence acceptance by the world community of Pyongyang as a nuclear-armed power.
North Korea’s state newspaper claimed on Friday that nearly five million citizens “volunteered to join or rejoin in the Korean People’s Army” in the past week, looking to fight against President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump together with First Lady Melania Trump plans to visit Asia in November. He will take in Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam, the Philippines and Hawaii.
Philippines Presidential Communications Assistant Secretary Margaux “Mocha” Uson is reportedly giving up dance commitments in Manila casinos following a firestorm of media criticism for her presence in casinos this week.
North Korea’s state media announced Friday that the country has issued a new set of stamps to commemorate the testing of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in July, yet another sign the nation’s communist regime remains unapologetic about its belligerent threats to its neighbors and the United States.
