Tag: IndoPacific
Taiwan Expands China War Drills Beyond Battlefield
Taiwan is expanding its annual war games to test whether the island's factories, supply routes and communications networks can keep functioning during a Chinese attack, adding new industrial and civilian resilience measures to next month's Han Kuang exercises.The August 5–14 drills will simulate Beijing using what appears to be a…
China, Philippines Summon Envoys After Shoal Clash
China and the Philippines moved to summon each other’s ambassadors on Tuesday, a day after a confrontation at Second Thomas Shoal left a Filipino sailor with a head injury and damaged a Philippine Navy rubber boat. The reciprocal diplomatic action, unusual despite repeated maritime confrontations, marked a sharper turn than…
ASEAN Turns to Iran War as Security Risks Grow
Southeast Asia's diplomats opened a week of high-level meetings in Manila on Monday under the Philippines' 2026 ASEAN chairmanship, with the bloc's foreign ministers set to convene among themselves Tuesday to address the war between the United States and Iran alongside two long-running regional priorities: Myanmar's civil war and tensions…
Japan Builds First Postwar Intelligence Agency
Japan is building its first centralized intelligence agency since World War II, launching a National Intelligence Bureau this summer with roughly 700 staff under a council chaired by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, according to The New York Times.That structural phase, passed by the Diet in May, is the easier half…
