China's military said it practised hitting key ports and energy sites during "live-fire" drills Wednesday as part of exercises aimed at Taiwan, the democratic island it claims as its own. The military said it held "long-range live-fire drills" and practised hitting "simulated targets of key ports and energy facilities" during the exercises.

The US said Tuesday it has approved a sale of $5.58 billion in F-16 fighter jets to the Philippines, as Washington backs its ally in rising tensions over China.

Tensions between Beijing and Washington could worsen this week, when a new set of Trump’s tariffs is set to take effect in a potentially broad limit on trade.

Satellite imagery indicates that Beijing might already be working on its fourth aircraft carrier—and this carrier is likely to be nuclear-powered.

As Donald Trump’s April 2 “Liberation Day” for announcing “reciprocal” tariffs on America’s trading partners approaches, the question in Beijing is whether this will be the moment when its nascent trade war with the US really escalates.

An internal Pentagon memo was welcomed by some former officials and analysts in Taiwan, who have watched with concern as Trump suspended U.S. support for Ukraine.

Three Democratic senators on Monday urged U.S. President Donald Trump to "dramatically revise" the United States' trade relationship with China along with 14 free trade agreements, providing a boost to his push to revamp U.

The United States sanctioned six Chinese and Hong Kong officials who it alleged were involved in “transnational repression” and acts that threaten to further erode the southern Chinese city’s autonomy

The United States is not in a cold war with China, and that’s precisely the problem. Unlike the Soviet Union, the Chinese Communist Party has no interest in a stable, rules-based standoff. The CCP is preparing for something far more dangerous: a hot war.