President Donald Trump unveiled a national security plan declaring the "era of mass migration is over" while targeting China as central threat.

China has attacked Takaichi, threatened economic retaliation and warned its citizens to avoid Japan. Takaichi said yesterday that Chinese warplanes had locked their radars on to Japanese fighter jets south-east of Okinawa on Saturday, in what she described as an “extremely regrettable” incident.

President Donald Trump says he will visit Beijing in April and host China’s President Xi Jinping for a state visit later next year.

The president has spoken with the leaders of both countries as they spar over remarks the Japanese prime minister made about the Beijing-claimed island democracy.

Feeling empowered after a clash over trade, Beijing is looking to exploit America’s inward turn.

Donald Trump’s campaign against Venezuela escalated recently with the US president announcing that the country’s airspace should be considered “closed”. This is a move that has preceded US military interventions in the past, perhaps most notably in Iraq in 2003.

When Xi Jinping and Donald Trump sat down in South Korea last month to discuss a pause in their trade war, Taiwan surprisingly didn’t come up. Now the biggest flashpoint between the US and China is firmly back on the agenda.

Japan, a U.S. ally that had angered China on Taiwan, found the message worrying.

Pentagon delays decision on Navy's F/A-XX stealth fighter despite Congress adding $1 billion to the budget, leaving carriers vulnerable as China advances its own program.

US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday held their first talks since agreeing to a tariff truce last month, discussing trade, Taiwan and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.