The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is frequently described in Washington as a harbinger for a new Chinese-led economic order. Numerous...

On 16 October, the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) kicked off in Beijing with CCP General Secretary Xi...

Whether Japan will intervene in a military contingency in the Taiwan Strait and how exactly it would do so is subject to debate among...

Earlier this year, a security agreement between China and the Solomon Islands elicited a surge of Western criticism and long-awaited...

For the third time in less than a year, governments and observers are attempting to understand President Biden's apparent assertion that...

On February 1, Myanmar’s military—known as the Tatmadaw—declared a one-year national emergency, claiming that the November 2020 election...

Photograph from Xinhua News showing a Chinese maritime militia ship in 2016. In response to the ongoing presence of over 200 Chinese...

In 2012, China established Sansha City to administer the majority of its maritime and territorial claims in the South China Sea. In the...

Introduction On 4 September, Reuters reported that the government of Laos, on the verge of default on its debt, planned to establish a...

Image: Xi Jinping Visits the Siping Battle Memorial Hall in Jilin Province, July 2020. In recent months, Beijing has propagated two...