China’s defense and security presence beyond the Western Pacific is set to intensify over the next decade, expanding its ...

PLA planners suggest drones could mine regional waters, turning the first island chain into a strategic blockade zone.

In the face of China’s daily escalating military pressure, “gray zone” threats, cognitive warfare and economic coercion, it is no longer enough for the nations along the First Island Chain to ...

China has spent years building a sophisticated A2/AD network covering its First Island Chain. America has likewise spent years planning to defeat it. China’s A2/AD (Anti-Access/Area Denial) network is ...

The PLAN’s deployments – the biggest to date – stretched from the southern Yellow Sea through the East and South China Seas and deep into the Western Pacific. According to a December 4 report by ...

Japan's islands and the waters of the Philippines could be targeted in a cross-strait operation, according to military ...

BEIJING, Jan 30 (Reuters) - China's coast guard patrolled Japan-administered islands in the East China Sea almost daily last year, it said on Friday, aiming to secure its sovereignty over the remote, ...

A think tank has released a new platform focusing on how Micronesia, a little-mentioned but strategically placed archipelago in the western Pacific, is becoming a central arena in the U.S.-China great ...

TOKYO—For years, defense planners in Japan have watched China’s rise with alarm. Beijing’s might, from military bases to missile arsenals, looks especially menacing from their country’s southwest. A ...