Asia & Pacific

The four officials will ‘discuss bilateral and defense and security issues affecting the region, and exchange views on regional and international issues.’

The U.S. military denounced the launches, urged North Korea to stop its ‘unlawful and destabilizing acts.’

Tension in the South China Sea simmers after multiple confrontations between ships from China and the Philippines in the vital waterway in recent months.

Beijing’s newly-released judicial guidelines targeting Taiwan independence ‘diehards’ put Taiwanese traveling to China, Hong Kong, and Macau at risk.

Philippine military officials said China Coast Guard personnel were carrying knives and spears, looted firearms, and damaged Philippine boats in the incident.

The State Department called on Beijing to ‘cease its depraved actions against prisoners of conscience.’

‘We need to think about designating the Chinese Coast Guard as part of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army,’ says report author, Bonny Lin.

‘There is nowhere near a material contribution of her mental health to the shoplifting,’ said a prosecutor.

An annual religious freedom report documents the Chinese regime’s tactics in pressuring venues to cancel performances by the group.

Pilots with real combat experience are rare in China, said another military expert.

Authorities hint at another round of currency-market intervention to prop up the yen.

‘The widespread, systematic, state-sponsored persecution of the Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party ... may constitute genocide,’ the legislation reads.

The inquiry into how NZ handled the pandemic will enter a second phase, causing NZ First to invoke an ‘agree to disagree’ clause in the coalition agreement.