Contingency Planning Memoranda identify plausible scenarios that could have serious consequences for U.S. interests and propose measures to both prevent and mitigate them. Tensions have risen to ...

Members of PLA command that oversees the East China Sea, where the neighbours have a territorial dispute, will meet Japanese defence officials. 13 Jan 2025 - 8:04PM videocam 4 ...

The buoy was an example of repeated Chinese incursions into Japan’s EEZ. From left: Japanese Minister of Education, Culture, ...

Each month, the CCG conducts what appears to be a ceremonial intrusion into the territorial waters of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, which are administered by Japan but claimed by China.

Beijing has defied Tokyo’s repeated demands to remove a buoy set up within Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the East China Sea, leaving the impasse in uncharted waters for about 10 months.

The ship, which specializes in electronic and signals intelligence collection, was seen monitoring a U.S.-Japan-South Korea exercise in the East China Sea.