China may gain in long term as Iran strikes reveal US retreat from stable leadership, but ‘sudden’ move from Beijing unlikely ...

One unintended consequence of US President Donald Trump’s tariff war is rising tensions in the Taiwan Strait. As China grows more confident that it is prevailing in the confrontation with the US, ...

Just when the 12-day Israel-Iran war threatened to engulf the Middle East and along with it his own presidency, Trump bullied the two countries into agreeing to a seemingly impossible truce on June 24 ...

The Japanese government plans to begin subsidising long-term evacuation facilities in the Sakishima archipelago, at the ...