R ICHARD NIXON’S surprise trip to China to meet Mao Zedong in 1972 came to be known in Japan as a “Nixon shock”. Donald Trump’s choreographed meeting with Xi Jinping was n

For years, the rivalry between China and Japan has been treated as a recurring diplomatic irritant. Historical grievances stemming from Japan’s invasion of China in the early 20th century have always created animosity in the relationship. Despite the ...

After spending years acting as though the Chinese subjugation of Taiwan was an inevitability, President Xi Jinping just got a wake-up call. Something deadly has just entered the Taiwan Strait, and it has delivered a show of force that has humiliated China.

MANILA--The Philippines and its security allies would take measures to counter any attempt by China to impose an air defense zone or restrict freedom of flights over the South China Sea, Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro said Wednesday,

Amid mounting friction between Tokyo and Beijing, Japan’s approach to China is increasingly tied to its domestic social debates. As Chinese tourists, migrants and digital culture become embedded in everyday life, public perceptions of China are ...

For two decades, Tokyo’s Genron NPO has been asking citizens of both China and Japan the same question: What do you think of the other country? What they have found is not a gradual drift but a punctuated collapse – sentiment lurches further downward ...