The draft budget is up 9.4 per cent from 2025 and marks the fourth year of Japan's ongoing five-year programme to double its ...

Optimists and well-wishers of the people of Myanmar hope that political forces and leaders, weary of turmoil, violence, and widespread hardship, will craft a modus vivendi to restore peace and ...

Japan's cabinet has approved a draft initial state budget of $783 billion for the fiscal year starting next April, largest in ...

China said one of its military vessels assisted a distressed Filipino fisherman in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, but the ...

Chinese defence ministry spokesperson said that the report maliciously misinterpreted China's national defence policy and made unfounded speculations.

Beijing is furious with Washington, but careful with New Delhi. China on Thursday slammed a Pentagon report that expands Beijing’s “core interests” to include Arunachal Pradesh, calling the document ...

China maintains a large and growing arsenal of nuclear, maritime, conventional long-range strike, cyber and space ...

The vote in Myanmar, widely seen as a sham, is a bid for legitimacy by the military government. It is also a way for Beijing ...

The silicon iron curtain that descended in 2025 may prove as consequential as the one that divided Europe for half a century. Only this time, the fault line runs through every smartphone, data center, ...

The Quad — the U.S., Japan, India and Australia — was conceived as a strategic coalition to uphold a “free and open Indo-Pacific,” a concept articulated by the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo ...

The following is the Dec. 18, 2025, Congressional Research Service in focus report, National Defense Strategy: Potential ...