The trilateral partnership of China, Japan, and South Korea is Asia's backbone. In a fractured world, it's our lifeline. Trade, supply chains and cultural bonds trump differences.

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan ...

Brunson added: “At night, from a satellite image, [South Korea] looks like an island or like a fixed aircraft carrier floating in the water between Japan and mainland China.” ...

Kim Moon-soo casts South Korea squarely as part of the U.S.-led community of democracies, such as the Quad’s working groups or technology alliances — which China dislikes. Kim accuses his ...

On November 20, 2024, defense ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) convened in Vientiane, Laos, for the 18 th ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM). The ADMM-Plus ...

To regain support in Southeast Asia, the United States should avoid overstating its convergence with Asian partners. Stressing the convergence narrative suggests, at best, that Washington lacks an ...

Japan and South Korea have rebuffed Beijing’s suggestion that they form a united front against Trump as the U.S. allies try to negotiate lower tariffs.

In exploring their options to avoid being completely caught up in U.S.-China tensions, many Southeast Asian states are eagerly building robust ties with Asia’s middle powers—Japan, Australia ...

From 1405 to 1433 CE, Ming fleets sailed to Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East, and East Africa, demonstrating that China could also be the center of a great maritime empire, or at least ...

Amid talks of reducing the U.S. military's footprint in South Korea, Gen. Xavier Brunson, head of U.S. Forces Korea, testified current troop levels are needed for pressing missions and challenges ...

The DMZ divides the peninsula by separating North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) from South Korea (Republic of Korea). The DMZ is 2.4 miles wide and centers on a demarcation line that ...

A Harris-Walz administration would build upon the Biden administration’s focus on partners and allies and likely struggle to respond to regional democratic backsliding.