East China Sea tensions

Japan scrambled fighter aircraft after a Chinese TB-001 armed drone and Y-9 intelligence-gathering aircraft operated near Okinawa in the East China Sea, highlighting Beijing’s expanding…

China has deployed its newest and most powerful Type 055 destroyer, Anqing, into combat-style live-fire training near Taiwan only weeks after commissioning, signalling a faster transition…

China has issued its strongest warning yet over Japan’s enormous plutonium stockpile, claiming Tokyo possesses enough separated plutonium to build approximately 5,500 nuclear warheads if it…