US targets more Venezuelan tankers as Russia advances and Thailand dissolves Parliament. Here’s your Friday morning brief, December 12, 2025.

City of Life and Death is a 2009 Chinese war drama directed by Lu Chuan. Set during the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, the film depicts the fall of the city and the experiences of Chinese soldiers, civilians, ...

Japan’s Master Plan, if carried out without first attacking Pearl Harbour, would have allowed Japan to dominate everything from East Asia to the Suez Canal plus liberate India and Ceylon from British ...

Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles will head to Japan on Saturday for talks with his Japanese counterpart, Shinjiro ...

China has spent years building a sophisticated A2/AD network covering its First Island Chain. America has likewise spent ...

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjirō Koizumi has publicly called for the acquisition of nuclear submarines, marking a significant strategic shift for the only nation to have suffered atomic bombings, wh ...

A Japanese official blasted China’s claims that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has altered Japan’s position on a Taiwan crisis as “entirely baseless,” calling for more dialogue to stop ties between ...

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Japan will likely lean more heavily on the US and its allies if China escalates economic pressure, as Tokyo seeks to navigate the fallout from Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks linking Taiwan’s ...

Weeks into the job, Japan’s new leader has come face-to-face with what it means to cross China’s red line on Taiwan. In the days since Sanae Takaichi suggested her country could respond militarily if ...

Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi has infuriated China with her recent remarks, with no clear means of resolution. On October 31, newly elected Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi (in office ...

China has indicated that it will effectively suspend all imports of Japanese seafood, as tensions between the two countries flared up following Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's recent comments ...