Emerging Risks

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.

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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

China's patient and successful method for pushing its border forward

Is it possible?

COLORADO SPRINGS: We’ve known for some time that China conducted an anti-satellite test July 23 last year, but we learned today that that test was “successful” even if it didn’t destroy anything. China has successfully placed low earth orbit satellites at risk, Air Force Lt. Gen. Jay Raymond told an overflow audience at the annual Warfighters Lunch at the Space Symposium here. “Soon every satellite in every orbit will be able to be held at risk,” the head of the 14th Air Force said. China has claimed the test was for missile defense and noted that nothing was destroyed in the test. Raymond ...

Despite the Obama-Xi handshake deal, the probability of confrontation will only heighten as long as the PLA remains a black box.

The military of China underwent a restructuring last year in a bid to prepare its military for conflict, the Pentagon said in its latest annual assessment.

Conditions seem ripe for a military clash between Washington and Beijing over the South China Sea.

A series of Chinese drills near Taiwan were designed to send a clear message to the island and China will take further steps if Taiwan independence forces persist in doing as they please, Beijing said...

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 …

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…

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The Ukraine crisis was not an isolated spat or a tragic misunderstanding, but rather the last straw—for both sides. The failure to achieve an acceptable post–Cold War settlement produced an unanchored relationship between the West and Russia.

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

People in the Baltic states cannot feel secure. Russian President Vladimir Putin has a plan he has been working on for over a decade. So says former adviser to President Putin, Andrey Illarionov.

Experts on both sides think they can turn up the pressure and prevail. This is dangerous.

The conflict between Russia and the West is evidence of a post-Cold War clash of worldviews that has never been resolved.