ST’s foreign bureaus outline how these power players will approach the new year. Read more at straitstimes.com.

China has claimed that the self-ruled Taiwan is part of its territory and has refused to renounce using force against it.

An American aircraft carrier returned to the South China Sea, while a Chinese "flattop" conducted another sea trial.

Toshi Yoshihara, Mao’s Army Goes to Sea: The Island Campaigns and the Founding of China’s Navy, Georgetown University Press, 2023. 176 pages, $34.95.

I'd like some help finding a poem, if any of you happen to know it. I read it when I was a teenager, and I forget who it was ...

On the one hand, the world is full of peril. We’re heading into a year where a global conflict, already playing out in the shadows, could flare into the open. Yet there’s something as stark that I ...

With three weeks left before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, the Biden administration announced nearly $21 billion ...

Researchers in China have used a novel approach to explain the presence of supra-thermal ions in nuclear fusion reactions.

Right now, America isn’t ready. As a report from a House panel concluded last year: “The United States lacks a contingency ...

Former US president Jimmy Carter is remembered for his transformative role in Asia, including normalising relations with China more than four decades ago.

With the war now over, the Taliban are welcoming foreign travelers, even as governments advise their citizens to stay away.

China is preparing paramilitary forces with amphibious and urban warfare training, possibly for a future invasion of Taiwan, ...