The U.S. national security community is increasingly focused on threats emanating from the Indo-Pacific. Threat Status at The Washington Times delivers daily and big-picture coverage of the region — from China's expanding military to high-stakes economic and technology developments and the plight of democracy among America's allies.
Federal authorities indicted three men charged with conspiracy to sell sophisticated artificial intelligence servers containing Nvidia chips to China in violation of U.S. export controls.
March 23 is the 30th anniversary of a historical first: Lee Tung-hui’s ballot box selection as president of Taiwan, more formally known as the Republic of China.
Advanced technology and low-yield nuclear weapons highlight the most complex and strategic threat environment for the United States since World War II, the new commander of the Strategic Command says.
North Korea has qualified for the Women’s World Cup for the first time since a doping saga in 2011 led to its long absence from top-tier international tournaments.
China’s communist government is continuing to work toward the annexation of Taiwan and hopes to complete unification with the self-ruled island democracy without resorting to force, according to the U.S. intelligence community’s annual threat assessment.
Leaders of U.S. military forces in the Western Hemisphere told Congress Tuesday that Chinese activities and influence pose a growing threat to U.S. national security.
Perhaps no leader on the global stage is as chummy with President Trump as Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, but their upcoming Thursday summit in Washington could prove tense.
The Chinese military has resumed warplane flights near Taiwan after a 10-day hiatus during which no aircraft were detected around the self-ruled island that Beijing has vowed to annex.
President Trump said Monday that the U.S. has asked Beijing to delay his planned trip to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping by “a month or so” because of the ongoing war in Iran.
South Korea and Japan on Monday downplayed the possibility of sending warships to secure tanker transit through the Strait of Hormuz, defying U.S. President Trump’s call for global powers to join the effort.
China warned Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest tariff moves could harm the countries’ trade relationship, at the end of high-level talks in Paris.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said President Trump might postpone his trip to China in late March if he needs to monitor the Iran war from Washington.
President Trump is suggesting he may delay his much-anticipated visit to China at the end of the month as he seeks to ramp up the pressure on Beijing to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz and calm oil prices that have soared during the Iran war.
Representatives from Beijing and Washington began their economic and trade talks in Paris on Sunday, paving the way for U.S. President Donald Trump’s state visit to Beijing to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping in about two weeks.
Taiwan saw a surge of Chinese military planes near the island, its defense ministry said Sunday, after a sharp drop in flights over the past two weeks had sparked discussions among observers.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, accompanied by his teenage daughter, observed a live-fire test of multiple rocket launch systems, state media reported Sunday, a likely response to ongoing U.S.-South Korean military training that North Korea views as an invasion rehearsal.
Voters in Vietnam cast their ballots to select a new National Assembly on Sunday, two months after the ruling Communist Party reelected leader To Lam to the country’s top political post.
Dodging glass-walled skyscrapers, a drone joined a high-octane chase as a spy tried to evade the agents in pursuit. In moments, the unmanned aircraft knocks him down. The drama happened in China’s southern city of Shenzhen and has been seen by millions of people domestically and abroad, including in the United States.
North Korea test-fired 10 short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan Saturday, five days after South Korea and its U.S. allies kicked off their annual spring war games.
A Chinese man was arrested in Kenya this week, accused of attempting to smuggle more than 2,200 live garden ants in his luggage.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will meet with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng on Sunday and Monday in Paris for a new round of trade talks, the Treasury Department said Thursday, paving the way for President Donald Trump’s state visit to Beijing starting March 31.
South Korea’s National Assembly on Thursday passed a bill to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in the U.S. — just as Washington announced a probe into alleged unfair trade practices by Seoul.
China adopted a sweeping law Thursday to promote what it calls “ethnic unity,” a measure that critics say would further erode the rights of some minority groups as authorities cement a push toward assimilation.
The CIA recently launched a program to recruit agents inside the near-totalitarian Chinese Communist system through a series of online videos in Mandarin.
The Jan. 3 capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro by U.S. Special Forces has made it crystal clear that there is a new rule book on foreign interference in the Western Hemisphere.
Chinese military warplane flights around Taiwan have declined sharply while warships incursions continue to be detected around the self-ruled island in the run-up to a planned summit between President Trump and his Chinese counterpart.
The Trump administration’s lifting of restrictions on H200-class chips marks a turning point in the debate over export controls.
Japan is preparing to deploy its first batch of domestically developed long-range missiles, with their launchers arriving at an army camp Monday as the country accelerates its offensive capability in response to rising challenges in the region.
China said it hopes this year will be a “landmark year” for its relationship with its biggest competitor, the U.S., striking a largely positive tone ahead of an expected summit between the leaders of the two countries later this month.
China’s President Xi Jinping on Saturday said political loyalty in the military must be ensured and called for resolutely pushing forward the fight against corruption as a military purge widened.
Hong Kong pro-democracy ex-publisher Jimmy Lai will not appeal the national security conviction for which he was sentenced to 20 years in prison last month, his legal team said Friday.
China’s military is expanding its forces with new submarines and drone weapons that threaten America’s undersea advantage, senior Navy officers disclosed this week.
At the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea, held every five years, North Korea’s Kim Jong-un left the door open for engagement with the U.S. and reaffirmed hostility with South Korea.
It took only hours for the Marxist-China-friendly People’s Forum to organize, staff and equip protesters to descend on Times Square on Feb. 28 to proclaim solidarity with Iran’s brutal regime.
The Trump administration’s military operation against Iran, ostensibly to destroy a reviving nuclear program and remove regional and global terrorist threats, includes a major side benefit: It will undermine China’s oil-based economy and counter Beijing’s global anti-U.S. strategy, according to American experts.
The American decapitation strikes on Iranian and Venezuelan leadership should raise alarms for Taiwan, the island democracy claimed by China.
Last month, the Supreme Court struck down the tariffs the Trump administration imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
Behind the closed doors of the Munich Security Conference, a dangerous idea was forming in the minds of European leaders: that Europe must de-risk from the United States.
China denounced the U.S.-Israeli attack on its regional ally Iran, calling Saturday’s missile strikes a violation of Iranian sovereignty and security.
The People’s Forum, one of two leftist domestic groups identified by the State Department as linked to China, called Saturday for holding mass protests against the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran.
Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi criticized China on Friday while doubling down on Tokyo’s determination to upgrade its military capabilities.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said Wednesday that he is willing to reopen negotiations with the U.S. on the condition that it “withdraws its hostile policy” toward the nuclear-armed dictatorship.
South Korea has relaunched a fact-finding commission into its past human rights violations, with a key focus on the extensive fraud and malfeasance that corrupted the nation’s historic foreign adoption program.
China’s initial investments in Syria’s post-war reconstruction could pose serious security risks for the region, advocates say, even as Damascus increasingly turns to the U.S. and Saudi Arabia for its most expensive projects.
