East Asia

By Sakura Murakami and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's new government signalled on Tuesday a more assertive position on China's...

TAIPEI (Reuters) -A group of French senators including a former defence minister will visit Taiwan this week, the island's foreign...

(Reuters) - China has claimed Taiwan through its "one China" policy since the Chinese civil war forced the defeated Kuomintang,...

By Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's extra military spending of T$240 billion ($8.6 billion) over the next five years...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan hopes tension between China and Taiwan will be resolved peacefully through dialogue, Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan falling to China would trigger "catastrophic" consequences for peace in Asia, President Tsai Ing-wen wrote in...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan hopes that Taiwan and China are able to resolve the issues peacefully between themselves, said Foreign...

(Restores headline) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio affirmed the strength of the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration is in private communication over Chinese actions with regard to Taiwan, the White House...

By Ben Blanchard and Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) - China blamed the United States on Monday for increased tensions over...

By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday that tweaking the country's financial...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Incoming Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida unveiled on Monday a cabinet line-up https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/profiles-likely-japanese-cabinet-ministers-2021-10-04 featuring allies of former...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -The two Koreas on Monday restored their hotlines that the North severed months ago, with...

By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) -The United States urged China on Sunday to stop its "provocative" military activities near Taiwan,...

By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan sharply criticised China on Saturday after Beijing marked the founding of the People's Republic...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired a newly developed anti-aircraft missile on Thursday, state media KCNA reported,...

TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan's air force scrambled again on Friday to warn away 25 Chinese aircraft that entered its air defence...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's air force scrambled again on Friday to warn away 25 Chinese aircraft that entered its air...

By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's new leader will appoint little-known but well-connected lawmaker Shunichi Suzuki as...

By Marcelo Rochabrun LIMA (Reuters) -Peru's mining minister said on Thursday that unrest at the huge Las Bambas copper mine...