Emerging Risks

Throughout history, power transitions have almost invariably resulted in war — and the US-China relationship is in just such a transition.

American policies toward Russia today echo the mistakes that led to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Recent pessimism suggests that China and the U.S. are already well on the road to great power confrontation.

The People's Liberation Army has for the first time released photos of its most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in action - a move seen as a response to US military moves in the region.

Is China preparing for an ‘inevitable war’ (or inevitable wars) in the South China Sea? When you hear that question, chances are that it conjures up images of xenophobic conspiracy ...

Rachel Marsden: PARIS -- A Cold War is purely an intelligence war.

Nouriel Roubini thinks the rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine is going to result in a cold war between the West and Russia. This could escalate.

China and Japan are moving toward war over the Senkaku Islands. While the people who are actually going to fight that war are continuing to prepare for it, Marines are seeing off an attempt by the Army to gain a role.

By Phil Stewart BEIJING (Reuters) - China called on the United States on Tuesday to restrain ally Japan and chided another U.S. ally, the Philippines, at the end of talks between American and Chinese defence chiefs that showed the strain of regional territorial disputes on Sino-U.S. ties. The forceful

In his new book on the disputed South China Sea, author Robert Kaplan deconstructs the volatile situation that has been bubbling in that region, and outlines the possible consequences for the West if Asia’s geopolitical situation continues to heat up.

With tension running high between the Philippines and China because of their maritime dispute, one wrong move could see Beijing grabbing all the disputed islands, say regional experts.

There is still a real risk that crisis will metastasize into conflict.

On Thursday, 10,000 Russian troops began a drill simulating the massive use of nuclear missiles.

PLA commanders should study the Qing dynasty's humiliating defeat to imperial Japan, a push seen by analysts as a warning against corruption in today's military, the leading military newspaper says.

The administration struggles to reassure Eastern European allies that it won't sell them out to Russia.

BY FORCE: Is physical occupation backed by military force the only option left in resolving territorial disputes between the Philippines and China in their common waters? by Federico D. Pascual Jr.

A US congressional commission has been told that China is “seeking to advance” its sovereignty claim over Taiwan.

A leading Asian investment bank has warned that a new financial crisis is emerging in China, as debt levels rise to unsustainable levels.

In a speech in Berlin on Wednesday, President Obama will resume a drive toward disarmament that had been largely shunted aside.

As President Obama proposes deep cuts in U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons arsenals, Pentagon war planners work to make these weapons more accurate and deadly.

Did Washington just give Israel the green light for a future attack on Iran via an arms deal? Did Russia just signal its further support for Bashar al-Assad's Syrian regime via an arms deal? Are...

Last June, Russian President Vladimir Putin chose Beijing as the first destination of his visit abroad after he was reelected Russian president. He made the choice to show the importance he attache…

Russia’s departure from quasi-democracy is beyond doubt, but it drifts rather than marches toward a debilitated and corrupt authoritarianism as Vladimir Putin’s third presidency settles into a tedious pattern. The discourse of “modernization” has been discarded and most of Dmitry Medvedev’s “innovations” have been cancelled, but Putin’s meeting with the activists of Popular Front, which was supposed to keep his …