BEIJING (AP) — China is sending a special envoy to Ukraine and Russia starting next week in an effort to help reach a political settlement of the Ukrainian crisis, its Foreign Ministry said Friday. Li Hui, who is China's special representative for Eurasian affairs and a former ambassador to Moscow, will also visit Poland, France and Germany, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said. China says it remains neutral over Russia’s war in...

For the first time since the late 1980s, the US Navy is building frigates, but other navies — including Russia and China — never stopped.

Beijing curtailed access by overseas firms to Chinese data sources at least in part because of a series of reports written by US research institutions that alarmed officials, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter.

During a recent bipartisan congressional delegation with the House Foreign Affairs Committee, my colleagues and I traveled to the Indo-Pacific region. While there, we listened to our partners and allies in South Korea and Japan and assessed China’s heightened aggression toward Taiwan. Our delegation held work sessions with our military strategists and leaders at the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, the Navy’s 7th Fleet headquartered in Japan, and with...

Our vulnerabilities are the product of conflicting political priorities and shortsightedness as missile defense took a back seat to other issues after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

The Navy is the most hobbled by readiness failures among the four US military service branches, according to congressional auditors, a worrisome assessment given the crucial role it would play in any potential conflict with China.

China appeared to order military readiness drills in response to meetings between U.S. and Taiwanese officials in order to make clear its unhappiness.

The timing of Xi's call to Ukraine — and China's decision to send emissaries to Ukraine — has raised eyebrows among political and defense analysts.

China warns Washington and Seoul against "provoking confrontation" with North Korea on Thursday, after President Joe Biden and his South Korean counterpart said Pyongyang would face the "end" of its leadership if it uses its nuclear arsenal. "All parties should face up to the crux of the (Korean) peninsula issue and play a constructive role in promoting a peaceful settlement of the issue," says foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping had a “long and meaningful” phone call Wednesday, their first known contact since Russia invaded Ukraine more than a year ago, and Beijing said it wanted to send an envoy to Kyiv to serve as a mediator to pursue a “political settlement.” The nearly hour-long call came two months after Beijing, which has long been aligned with Russia, said it wanted...

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Matsu's 14,000 residents rely on two submarine internet cables leading to Taiwan's main island. Pictured: Wang Chung Ming, the head of the Matsu islands