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.
As Ukraine and Iran battle larger, better-armed, high-tech adversaries using economical and attritable uncrewed systems, armed forces around the world are taking on board the key lessons.
A giant American flag hanging on the wall of a warehouse in New Hampshire hints at the national importance of the elements bound inside the mining waste stored in 1-ton bags. The company uses electrolysis to separate the key critical elements President Trump’s administration desperately wants to produce domestically from the powder left behind at traditional mines.
A Chinese military scientist covertly sent vials of a coronavirus to a Minnesota laboratory in 2018 — highlighting the People’s Liberation Army’s work on viruses similar to the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic a year later, according to declassified documents released by a Senate committee.
China has attained victim status, compliments of the cabal that makes such assignments: Democrats and the liberal news media.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul just handed Beijing a win in the race for artificial intelligence supremacy.
North Korea is now strategically closer to Russia and China than at any other time since the Korean War.
It is easy to condemn North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un for his dictatorial rule, but in terms of strategic pragmatism, his ever-evolving nuclear deterrent looks increasingly prudent.
South Korean authorities ordered civilians to evacuate on Tuesday after a suspected white phosphorus leak at a U.S. military base near the capital, Seoul.
An earthquake registering a magnitude of 7.1 shook Kumamoto on Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu late Tuesday afternoon and a tsunami advisory was temporarily issued, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
On July 1, a new Chinese law took effect. It claims the right to punish people who have never set foot in China, including those residing on American soil.
The Navy deployed an aircraft carrier strike group to the contested South China Sea amid growing tensions between the Philippines and China, according to U.S. officials.
North Korea is preparing to deploy 30,000 fresh troops to support Russia’s war against Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, while claiming that Moscow is also preparing to mobilize Russians to boost its flagging campaign.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. denounced China in a veiled rebuke Monday in his state of the nation speech, vowing that his government will defend a 2016 arbitration ruling that invalidated Beijing’s expansive claims in the disputed South China Sea, and saying that Filipinos “do not yield” to conquerors.
Did the foreign ministers of China and Japan talk at last week’s ASEAN regional meeting, or didn’t they?
Shares of CXMT, China’s largest memory chipmaker, shot skyward Monday as they began trading in Shanghai in mainland China’s biggest initial public stock offering in recent years.
Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was convicted of making false statements during his presidential campaign in the latest verdict after he was removed from office last year over his brief imposition of martial law.
After spending more than five years in Hong Kong’s prison, former pro-democracy lawmaker Wu Chi-wai finally got to embrace his wife and son in London last week. They wept with joy. But he could be sent back to the Chinese territory this week, far earlier than planned.
China has a hot new product in the United States: artificial intelligence.
President Trump says he does not believe two strategic partners of Iran — China and Russia — are assisting Tehran in its war with the U.S.
Japan is set to launch a new counterintelligence agency, the National Intelligence Bureau, and hold the first meeting of its new National Intelligence Council on July 31.
Ezra Jin Mingri was inside a detention center in southern China on the morning of July 3, worrying that he would likely spend at least 15 years behind bars. The 57-year-old Chinese Christian pastor had even previously wondered whether he would live to see freedom again.
The House version of the fiscal 2027 defense authorization bill calls on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to report on the Chinese Communist Party’s influence in South Korea.
Kozo Okamoto, the Japanese militant who took part in a deadly attack on Tel Aviv’s airport more than five decades ago, died Thursday in Beirut, the Palestinian group that had been protecting him said. He was 78.
The Army’s newest ultra-high-speed missile known as Dark Eagle was deployed to the U.S. island of Tinian last month, 100 miles from Guam during a recent military exercise, according to Pacific Command, not to Guam as had been reported.
The following has been adapted from a speech by Joseph Wu, secretary-general of Taiwan’s National Security Council, at an event earlier this month in Taiwan.
The Chinese Communist Party operates a web of organizations engaged in irregular warfare — conflict below the level of kinetic warfare — targeting the U.S. which is not ready to counter the activities, an expert told the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Germany has deported a Uyghur man to China where there are concerns he could be detained as a member of an ethnic group that has been targeted by the Chinese government, his mother told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has urged his countrymen to consider a move unthinkable in the pacifist-leaning nation just a few years ago: adding nuclear arms to the country’s arsenal.
The U.S. and China are reportedly slated to hold discussions over artificial intelligence in September.
Southeast Asia’s top diplomats opened three days of talks in the Philippine capital on Tuesday with an agenda topped by their most daunting security problems and a backdrop of unfolding crises led by resurging U.S.-Iran fighting and a violent skirmish in the disputed South China Sea.
Japan expressed concern after a Chinese navy destroyer conducted live-fire drills off a remote Japanese island in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday during its joint exercise with Russia, officials said Tuesday.
The news that U.S. intelligence knew the Chinese Communist Party acquired data on some 220 million U.S. voters should not be viewed only through the narrow lens of election security.
President Trump signed an executive order on Monday that requires the government to ensure that national security contractors are not dependent on adversaries such as China or using unreliable sources for critical materials in the U.S. supply chain.
China’s all-powerful civilian and military leader, Xi Jinping, has purged more than 100 senior military leaders in the past four years — far more than the People’s Liberation Army officially acknowledged, according to an Air Force think tank report.
A former president of the China Development Bank was put under investigation on suspicion of serious violations of party discipline and the law, the country’s top anti-graft watchdog announced on Sunday.
Rescue crews used excavators on Sunday to comb through the rubble in search of survivors from a landslide in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing that killed at least eight people and left another 34 missing.
China is reacting angrily to President Trump’s claims that it stole information about 220 million American voters during the 2020 election, dubbing them “groundless accusations.”
Chinese and Russian officials held secret meetings in China on military cooperation that included plans to shoot down Starlink satellites now providing key communications for Ukraine’s army, according to documents obtained by investigators at three news outlets.
The world has largely viewed the U.S. more favorably than China for years, but those opinions have flipped in Beijing’s favor this year, according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center, a remarkable shift driven in part by tensions between the Trump administration and U.S. allies.
The United States and China are engaged in a competition that will shape far more than the future of medicine.
The war with Iran is delaying an already overdue U.S. foreign policy and national security pivot to Asia, warns retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
China’s recent test of a long-range ballistic missile did not launch from a submerged submarine but was fired from the ocean’s surface near the coast, according to a senior Taiwanese defense intelligence official.
Hong Kong authorities have raided two bookstores and arrested five people on suspicion of selling allegedly seditious publications, local media reported Wednesday, in the latest step targeting independent booksellers.
An independent committee investigating the cause of Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades began hearing final arguments Wednesday as the inquiry moves toward a conclusion.