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.
China’s army is improving attack helicopter skills against U.S. missile defenses and ground vehicles, and recently practiced live-fire missile strikes against mockups of Patriot anti-missile launchers and Army Humvees, according to an Army think tank report.
Russia has conducted missile tests off Japanese-claimed islands in the Northwestern Pacific, escalating a weeklong Moscow-Tokyo diplomatic row in the area.
American submarines are a key focus in protecting U.S. military advantages against foreign enemies, along with new national security space systems know-how, according to a recent White House strategy report.
Is your refrigerator spying on you? If it was manufactured in China, it could be.
Days after he ordered the Pentagon to scale back joint military exercises with South Korea, President Trump said Wednesday he would meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un later this year.
The Pentagon is rewriting its nuclear weapons guidance to give the president more options in a crisis. One official’s biggest fear: a regional war that spirals into nuclear conflict.
Do you want to see whether a robot can fold a piece of cloth? Interested in getting a robot dog or even a humanoid robot that could offer some emotional support? Or perhaps you just want to watch robots boxing and dancing? Come to Beijing.
The Pentagon is conducting a review of nuclear weapons use that seeks to provide the president and military leaders with greater options for using tactical nuclear weapons in a regional conflict while preventing an escalation into global thermonuclear war, according to a senior defense policymaker.
In 1240, Mongol warriors led by Genghis Khan’s grandson Batu besieged and destroyed Kyiv.
On July 22, China’s State Council published new regulations on exit and entry, to take effect on Sept. 15.
For decades, the United States and South Korea have regularly staged military drills to prepare their soldiers to work together smoothly in the event of a crisis or conflict with North Korea.
Visiting Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi on Tuesday sidestepped a brouhaha that has galvanized Australian media — an apparent reference by the Australian prime minister to his Japanese counterpart’s breasts.
Artificial intelligence has unleashed unprecedented competition throughout the world.
Six years after COVID-19 brought the world to its knees, the time for euphemisms is over.
A Navy guided-missile destroyer sailing in the tension-filled South China Sea was dead in the water for four days after a system failure, according to the Navy’s 7th Fleet.
The head of South Korea’s largest Buddhist order and the aging leader of a Korean War veterans’ association joined visiting European experts in decrying what they described as ongoing assaults on freedom of belief and expression in South Korea.
South Korea on Monday expressed hopes for the resumption of diplomacy between the U.S. and North Korea to ease animosities on the Korean Peninsula, hours after U.S. President Trump said he ordered annual U.S. military exercises with South Korea to be scaled back.
President Trump ordered the Pentagon on Sunday to scale back planned joint military exercises with South Korea, saying it declined to help denuclearize Iran and citing his good relationship with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.
American leadership in biotechnology resulted from decades of investment.
China’s recent test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile without adequate warning prompted the U.S. and 40 countries to demand greater advance notice of such tests, the State Department said in a joint statement.
The recent cyber attacks, probably by Iran, against at least 12 U.S. states is a stark reminder that America must do more to defend its critical infrastructure.
The State Department on Thursday called a joint Chinese naval maneuver with an Indonesian warship in waters east of Taiwan a destabilizing act, while Taipei denounced the maneuver as “dangerous.”
The Pentagon’s senior defense policymaker on Thursday defended the lack of any mention of Chinese aggression toward the Philippines in the South China Sea or Beijing’s military pressure against Taiwan in recent remarks as part of a new U.S. strategy aimed at avoiding a war with China.
Authorities in Vietnam have announced a major seizure of ivory they say was illegally shipped from Africa, Vietnamese media reported Thursday.
A brouhaha over the role of the U.S.-led United Nations Command erupted Thursday, just hours after the unit’s Australian deputy commander briefed foreign reporters.
Sen. Jim Banks is urging Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to add a Chinese-owned multinational industrial equipment enterprise to its blacklisting of China’s military companies.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to the disputed Kuril Islands drew a sharp rebuke Thursday from the Japanese government, which has long claimed four of the islands in the archipelago.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday made his first visit to the Kuril Islands, a Moscow-controlled Pacific archipelago that also is claimed by Japan, which voiced a diplomatic protest over the trip.
China’s military is expanding an array of space warfare weapons that pose a major threat to American satellites and the military operations they support, a senior Space Force general said Wednesday.
Michael Lucci, founder, CEO and Chairman of State Armor, joins Kelly Sadler on Politically Unstable to talk about China’s alleged influence campaign against U.S. data centers, the real environmental record and why winning the AI race matters.
The Thai government pledged Wednesday to tighten gun controls and crack down on illegal firearms after two deadly shootings near Bangkok in less than a week.
The day after Li Chen-hsiu was sworn in as a member of Taiwan’s Legislature, she was questioned about whether she belonged - about her nationality, about her identity and ultimately about her loyalty to Taiwan.
Japan’s Defense Ministry says North Korea has launched a possible ballistic missile toward the sea.
The Vatican has abandoned the Catholic faithful in China.
New Chinese government controls over a disputed South China Sea reef are a “destabilizing activity” and legal claims that Beijing is protecting a nature reserve there are questionable, the State Department said in pushing back against China’s expansive regional maritime claims.
Ukraine’s reconstruction will be the largest rebuilding effort in Europe since World War II.
Two former officers in the Chinese armed forces have been arrested in South Korea on suspicion of spying on and around major U.S. bases in the country.
China ‘s launch of a rocket carrying a communications satellite on Monday evening was not successful, state media reported, adding that the cause of the failed launch was under investigation.
Hanwha Defense USA, a subsidiary of South Korea’s Hanwha Group, has made an offer to buy Austal USA.
Two former Chinese military service members were arrested in South Korea for alleged espionage, accused of acts including intercepting communications between fighter jets and ground control and collecting information on movements of U.S. armaments, police said Tuesday.
Russia bombarded Ukrainian cities with missiles, drones and glide bombs, killing at least nine civilians, officials said Tuesday, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Moscow is receiving new military help for its more than 4-year-old invasion from North Korea.
The Pentagon’s new “realism” policy in the Asia-Pacific rejects moralizing and identifying regional threats, the Pentagon’s chief policymaker said in a major speech Monday that omitted references to China’s nefarious activities and regional aggression.
Industry and government officials widely believed that American frontier models were six months ahead of Chinese competitors.
Li Linlin cried for days after losing her AI boyfriend.
Progress with North Korea should bring some form of happiness to the Korean people and to the people in the U.S. who cry out for a more peaceful world.
Nagasaki marked on Sunday the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern city, as the mayor called nuclear weapons “absolute evil,” denounced growing support for nuclear deterrence and called on the Japanese government to adhere to its three postwar non-nuclear principles.
Myanmar’s military-backed government has rejected the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ renewed call for the unconditional release of detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi and dismissed the need for the organization’s special envoy on Myanmar, according to the foreign affairs ministry.