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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

SOME targets of the American president’s tariffs, such as China and the EU, are fighting back. South Korea and Japan feel they have to play nice. They are terrified that President Donald Trump ...

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 ...

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 ...