With weekly provocations from China against both the Philippines and Japan, Manila and Tokyo are more actively seeking a common response to Beijing’s challenges. Last week, such coalescence gained (more…)
A military hotline connecting military commands on either side of the DMZ was resumed on Sept. 6 after being disconnected unilaterally by Pyongyang 163 days earlier. On March 27, (more…)
In a move that will surely anger China, the Japanese government announced last week that it would proceed with naming more than 200 offshore islands within Japanese maritime territory (more…)
The governments of Japan and Ukraine, the only countries with devastating nuclear accidents, i.e., the Chernobyl and Fukushima meltdowns, inked an agreement last week to jointly monitor and test (more…)
With China escalating its military presence in and near the Senkaku islands waters, Japan is planning to beef up its defensive amphibious capability. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet has (more…)
The Vietnamese Defense Minister Gen. Phung Quang Thanh visited Moscow in mid-August and inked a major arms deal with the Russians for the purchase of another 12 units of (more…)
The day-long official negotiations between North and South Korea resulted in a joint announcement on Aug. 14 that the largest joint enterprise known as the Kaesong Industrial Park would (more…)
China’s largest energy company, the state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation or CNPC, was ordered by the government of Chad to halt its operations. The order was issued after the (more…)
Defense officials in both Washington and Manila believe that the Philippines is most likely to receive at least 7 Perry-class U.S. frigates next year in an effort to increase (more…)