China is remaking Asia’s security map, but not in the way it intends. From water cannon confrontations in the South China Sea ...

Eight years ago Barack Obama spent several days in the twilight of his presidency in Laos. He bought a coconut from a roadside stall, visited holy sites, then sat through two days of stultifying ...

In October, China intensified coercive activities in the South China Sea while expanding military sales, diplomatic ...

Southeast Asia is vital for China. Well-known international relations scholar Yan Xuetong has stated that the region will develop economically, politically, and militarily in the future, surpassing ...

The commander of US Forces Korea has announced a new way of looking at East Asia: upside-down ...

Few better ways exist to see Vietnam than to travel on its north-south railway. It was originally built by French colonialists, and its trains pass rice paddies, verdant mountains and spectacular ...

Since the 1990s, China’s defence white papers have outlined Beijing’s solutions to managing regional security challenges, such as former Chinese president Jiang Zemin’s new security concept and ...

Flooding across much of south-east Asia fuelled by a rare cluster of three tropical storms has claimed the lives of more than 400 people in five countries, with Indonesia and Thailand the worst hit so ...