mediating conflicts from the Middle East to Ukraine. But its concurrent actions in regional flashpoints like the South China Sea have also raised eyebrows and scepticism over perceived ...

China’s leader is keen to capitalize on a leadership vacuum left by US President Donald Trump in East Asia ... territorial claims in the South China Sea. Xi’s rhetoric has gained fresh ...

According to official news reports, China has reached consensus with 17 neighboring countries on building a “community with a shared future,” signed Belt ... as the East China Sea and the ...

These threats seem to have had an effect: Panama has withdrawn from China’s Belt and Road Initiative and accepted ... it may be more inclined to accommodate Beijing’s concerns over the East China Sea, ...

The project, part of China's Belt and Road Initiative ... Even so, there are still routine skirmishes in the East China Sea over claims over what China refers to as the Diaoyu Islands and Japan ...

For China, the Middle East represents more than oil and infrastructure projects. It’s a critical corridor in its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI ... perhaps near the Red Sea? Could future iterations of ...

China and Malaysia are friendly neighbors across the sea and the “Maritime Silk Road stood witness ... Their experiences demonstrate how the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has become a framework for ...

Coming from a country often at odds with Beijing’s assertive maritime claims in the South China Sea and East China Sea, it was a diplomatic ... a wide array of infrastructure initiatives under the ...

Tensions escalate as Japan and China accuse each other of airspace violations near the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islands. Japan protested after a Chinese helicopter entered its airspace, prompting ...

Japan and China are accusing each other of violating the airspace around the Japanese-controlled East China Sea islands that Beijing also claims TOKYO -- Japan and China are accusing each other of ...

A new study uses a paleotidal model to trace the formation of carbon-rich mud deposits over thousands of years.

China on Sunday denied Japan's claim that a Chinese coast guard helicopter entered its airspace near the contested Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, instead accusing Japan of provoking the ...