One of the most curious things about China's population is that the overwhelming majority live in the eastern part of the ...

An American aircraft carrier has arrived near the Korean Peninsula for an exercise with Japan and South Korea.

A comparison of China’s official map of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Bhutan’s national ... which Chinese reports say used ...

China has published baselines for a contested shoal in the South China Sea it had seized from the Philippines, a move that’s ...

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The arrival of a new Japan-based carrier means the United States has plugged the "gap" in contested waters near China, where ... is already the biggest in the world by hull count.