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China's ships are getting bigger and more aggressive, and Japan is scrambling to keep up
China's massive Coast Guard and a new law expanding what it can do have worried its neighbors, mayb…
Benjamin Brimelow
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New Russian weapons add to simmering tensions over a lingering territorial dispute in Asia
The recent arrival of Russian weapons to small islands north of Japan adds a new wrinkle to a centu…
Christopher Woody
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Amid security concerns, Japan deploys troops on remote islands near China, Taiwan
Due to security concerns from the Chinese side, Japan has decided to deploy missile troops on remot…
ANI
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China and Japan are building forces to fight it out on Pacific islands — here's how they stack up
Military success in the Pacific depends on two things: naval strength and amphibious capabilities. …
Benjamin Brimelow
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China and Russia are practicing 'island-seizing' in the South China Sea
Though the statement claims the drills do not intend to target any third party, the placement of th…
Alex Lockie
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Japanese Islands Fear Getting Caught In The Middle Of A Conflict With China
Gavan McCormack, emeritus professor and visiting fellow, Division of Pacific and Asian History at t…
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Chinese Ships Are Sailing Near Disputed Islands Claimed By Japan
Japan's conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has vowed no compromise on sovereignty of the island…
Agence France Presse
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China tells US to 'speak and act with caution' in South China Sea island dispute
Visiting Tokyo, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter expressed opposition to any moves by China to …
Sui-Lee Wee
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Japan Lets Its New Defense Budget Do The Talking Over Island Dispute
Purchased by Japan, the islands' ownership is hotly contested by China, which for several months ha…
Robert Johnson
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Fully Armed Chinese Z-10 Helicopter With Extra Fuel Tanks On 'Combat Status'
The Shuimen airbase compliments China's nearby East Fleet that maintains 35 ships in the region, in…
Robert Johnson
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See The Chinese Government-Backed Video Game That Lets You Fight Japan For Control Of Disputed Islands
Whle nationalistic video games are hardly rare (take, for example, Call of Duty or America's Army),…
Adam Taylor
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Japan says China's increasingly aggressive air force breached its airspace for the first time ever
Japan said a Chinese Y-9 reconnaissance plane had flown over the Danjo islands, west of the island …
Tom Porter
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Japan is scrambling to explain why its naval destroyer pushed into Chinese waters where Beijing was conducting live-fire drills near Taiwan
Local media reported that while Japanese authorities believe the ship made a mistake, its captain i…
Matthew Loh
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Japan seeks extra defense budget amid China, N Korea concern
The Defence Ministry says its "defence power reinforcement and acceleration package" is designed to…
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Japan seeks extra defence budget amid China, N Korea concern
The Defence Ministry says its "defence power reinforcement and acceleration package" is designed to…
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Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly signed a secret $275 billion deal with China in 2016 to skirt challenges with government regulators
Apple agreed to help Chinese companies build "the most advanced manufacturing technologies" and to …
Sarah Jackson
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China might be purging Bill Gates' and Steve Jobs' biographies from 240 million students' reading lists to eliminate 'veneration of the West'
In the run-up to the Communist Party's centennial, the government ordered schools to pull books "ve…
Cheryl Teh
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Japan is converting its 2 biggest warships into aircraft carriers, and US Marines are helping it train to use them
This month, US Marine Corps F-35Bs became the first fixed-wing aircraft to operate on a Japanese ai…
Benjamin Brimelow
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Japan is rethinking how to use its tanks to prepare for a potential clash with China
Japan is changing how it designs and uses tanks to counter a new threat from China, but it still ha…
Benjamin Brimelow
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India and fellow QUAD countries agree to step up coordination in Indo-Pacific amid China's growing assertiveness in South China Sea
The four major Indo-Pacific democracies, collectively known as the Quad, vowed to coordinate i…