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US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says that Washington's "one-China policy" toward Taiwan "has not changed," after President Joe Biden said the US was willing to defend the island militarily from a Chinese invasion.

Allegations of human rights abuses in northwestern Chinas Xinjiang region will dominate a visit by the United Nations top rights official that began Monday.

Michelle Bachelet begins trip amid fears that authorities will use Covid restrictions as cover to limit her access

Allegations of human rights abuses in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region are the dominant issue on a visit by the United Nations’ top rights official that starts Monday. Michelle Bachelet’s visit is the first to China by a U.N. high commissioner for human rights since 2005, but rights groups warn it threatens to whitewash the ruling Communist Party abuses in Xinjiang. China has locked up more than a million members of its Uyghur, Kazakh and other Muslim minorities in wha

BEIJING (AP) Allegations of human rights abuses in Chinas northwestern Xinjiang...

Allegations of human rights abuses in Chinas northwestern Xinjiang region will dominate a visit by the United Nations top rights official that starts Monday.

BEIJING (AP) Allegations of human rights abuses in Chinas northwestern Xinjiang...

Allegations of human rights abuses in Chinas northwestern Xinjiang region will dominate a visit by the United Nations top rights official that starts Monday

President says US’s responsibility to protect island is ‘even stronger’ after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

The UN human rights chief was Monday due to begin a six-day trip to China that takes in the remote Xinjiang region, stirring fears over access and the propaganda value the visit offers to the Chinese

President Joe Biden is rolling out an Indo-Pacific economic pact to deepen cooperation and help counter China's growing influence.

The US is eager to strengthen Indias technological capabilities for defence and security. Delhi needs to move quickly to create internal environment for such partnerships with Quad members

Philippine president-elect Ferdinand Marcos signalled his determination to adopt nuclear power Monday, holding talks with South Korea's envoy on possibly reviving a mothballed $2.2 billion plant built

President Biden on Monday announced a new framework meant to guide U.S. economic involvement in the Indo-Pacific over the long term while in Japan as part of his first trip to Asia as commander in chief. The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) aims to deepen trade ties between the U.S. and a dozen other…

President Joe Biden announced 12 countries have joined a new trade pact that the White House says will help the United States work more closely with Asian...

The "Indo-Pacific strategy" is causing more and more vigilance and concern in the international community, especially in the Asia-Pacific region, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said while responding to a question at his joint press conference with Pakistan counterpart Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou.

The Philippines is to start offering financial incentives to overseas distributors of Filipino films.

The Philippines has established three coast guard outposts on three islands in the disputed South China Sea to monitor ship movements and promote safety, officials said Friday, amid increasing maritime tensions with China. The move reinforced the presence of Filipino troops on the islands in the hotly contested Spratly archipelago and will likely be frowned upon by Beijing, which has claimed the disputed waterway virtually in its entirety. China has protested any new constructions in the regio

The petition, filed Tuesday, seeks to disqualify Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s candidacy post-election on the grounds that he lied about not committing any crimes a requirement to run for president.

TOKYO (AP) Japan welcomes a new U.S. economic initiative for the Indo-Pacific that...

Chinas Maritime Safety Administration office in the southern island province of Hainan said the military drills began Thursday and will continue through Monday

Decades of Western support for dictators have caused a crisis of democracy.

Japan is welcoming a new U.S. economic initiative for the Indo-Pacific that President Joe Biden is expected to roll out during a visit to Tokyo next week because it demonstrates American commitment to a regional economic order that is not just about market access

U.S. President Joe Biden met Monday with families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago to show his support for their efforts to win the return of their loved ones. The families said Biden talked to each of them and listened to their stories, encouraging them as their hopes were fading because of North Korea's escalating missile sand nuclear development. WHO ARE THE JAPANESE ABDUCTED BY NORTH KOREA?

TOKYO (AP) U.S. President Joe Biden met Monday with families of Japanese citizens...

U.S. President Joe Biden has met with families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago to show his support for their efforts to win the return of their loved ones

Pointing to Putins Ukraine disaster, the president pokes Beijing in its sorest spot, saying the idea that it could be taken by force will dislocate the entire region.

South Koreas new president, Yoon Suk-yeol, used a largely successful summit with U.S. President Joe Biden over the weekend to lay the foundation for his goal of enabling South Korea to play a more active role around the world.

President Joe Biden meets with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo and unveils a multinational trade initiative Monday as part of his push to reinvigorate US strategic power across Asia.

TOKYO (AP) President Joe Biden on Monday is set to launch a new Indo-Pacific trade...

President Joe Biden arrived Sunday in Japan for the second leg of an Asia trip underlining US commitment to the region but overshadowed by concern that North Korea will test a nuclear weapon after ignoring Washington's attempt at outreach.

North Korea's daily fever cases stayed below 200,000 for a second day in a row, state media said on Monday, as Pyongyang remained silent on South Korean and U.S. offers to help fight its first confirmed COVID-19 outbreak. The COVID wave, declared on May 12, has fuelled concerns over a lack of vaccines, inadequate medical infrastructure and a potential food crisis in the country of 25 million. U.S. President Joe Biden said on Saturday that Washington had offered COVID-19 vaccines to China

Joint statement lays out unified opposition to North Korean belligerence

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Official U.S. policy has always been 'strategic ambiguity' over whether to intervene if China tried to take Taiwan by force.

As Leah reported earlier, President Biden made comments while on his swing through Asia about how the United States would react to a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan and, as

President Joe Biden said Monday that the U.S. is willing to intervene militarily should China invade Taiwan in a similar manner as Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Former House Speaker New Gingrich credited President Joe Biden with being "instinctively"correctin saying the U.S. would intervene militarily if Chinainvaded Taiwan.

His comments have gradually broken from the established policy of strategic ambiguity. The question is why.

For the third time since August of last year, the White House walked back comments by President Biden Monday implying the US would aid Taiwan if the island nation came under attack from China.

At a news conference with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan during a visit to Tokyo, President Biden suggested that he would be willing to go further on behalf of Taiwan than he has in helping Ukraine.

Chinese foreign ministry balks at remarks U.S. President made in Tokyo, saying Taiwan question is purely Chinas internal affair

President Biden said Monday the U.S. would get involved militarily if China were to invade Taiwan, a blunt statement that went beyond the "strategic ambiguity" that previous presidents have employed in talking about the island nation that Beijing considers a breakaway province.

President Biden committed the U.S. military to defending Taiwan if China were to invade, raising questions about whether there has been a change in policy.Speaking at a news conference in

Joe Biden’s hosts have treated him to Tokyo’s finest cuisine, but entertaining US presidents hasn’t always gone to plan

No non-American has ever touched down on the lunar surface, and Japan has previously said it hopes to achieve a Moon landing by the end of this decade.

US presidents two-day visit will culminate in the formal launch of an economic plan for deeper engagement in Asia.

US President Joe Biden meets Japanese Emperor Naruhito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. President Joe Biden arrived Sunday in Japan for the second leg of an Asia trip underlining US commitment to the region.

Japan is asking universities for greater scrutiny of foreign students and scholars to prevent technology leaks to places like China, partly for its own national security but also to safeguard exchanges with U.S. and European universities.

Space is a key area of cooperation for Japan with the United States, its closest ally, amid heightened tensions with an increasingly assertive China, which itself aims to become a space power.

U.S. President Joe Biden, in Japan to launch a regional economic plan to counter China and reaffirm ties with a key Asian ally, began his visit on Monday by meeting with Emperor Naruhito.

Pressure from the US presidentcan givePrime Minister Fumio Kishida cover to increase military spendingto counter China.

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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida sees parallels between Russia's actions in Europe and China's expansion in the Indo-Pacific, a region stretching from America's Pacific coastline to the Indian Ocean.

Before COVID hit, the ancient city's 17 world heritage sites and 2,000 temples and shrines drew 88 million tourists in in a single year. But it still can't pay the bills.

President Joe Biden said on Monday that he is weighing the elimination of tariffs on Chinese goods that were imposed by the Trump administration, the Business Insider reported.

U.S. President Joe Biden said he was weighing cutting tariffs on Chinese goods while increasing calls on OPEC to raise oil production as he grappled with a...

The editorial board at the Wall Street Journal said the Biden administration and federal policies led to the infant formula crisis.

Consumers and taxpayers are paying for this shortage.

LONDON: Britain on Friday said it was launching talks over a free trade deal with Mexico, looking to add services to...

President Biden could lower prices modestly on an array of Chinese imports from AirPods to refrigerators by wiping out legacy Trump tariffs, but he hasn't. It's politically complicated.

The repeal of most or all of former president Donald Trumps tariffs would be the single most effective way of reducing inflation in the near future.

Solar tariffs were supposed to save the U.S. solar industry. They slowed it down instead.

This is no time for the president to cut China a break.

The National Retail Federation (NRF) on Wednesday urged President Biden to reduce or eliminate tariffs on Chinese goods as a way to help combat red-hot inflation.   The lobbying group claimed that lifting tariffs that were first imposed by the Trump administration could reduce consumer prices by as much as 1.3 percent. Consumers and businesses continue…

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday confirmed she is advocating within the Biden administration for eliminating some tariffs on Chinese imports that "aren't very strategic" but are hurting U.S. consumers and businesses. Yellen told a press conference ahead of a G7 finance ministers and central bank governors' meeting that internal discussions are underway about the punitive "Section 301" tariffs imposed by former U.S. president Donald Trump on hundred