The U.S. national security community is increasingly focused on threats emanating from the Indo-Pacific. Threat Status at The Washington Times delivers daily and big-picture coverage of the region — from China's expanding military to high-stakes economic and technology developments and the plight of democracy among America's allies.
REPORT: Chinese government and United Front-linked organizations named Elaine Chao, the wife of Sen. Mitch McConnell, to several advisory and honorary positions that overlapped with her U.S. Cabinet service.
North Korea denounced the international Freedom Edge 2026 drills that got underway Monday around the strategic island of Jeju, off the peninsula’s southwestern coast, with Japanese, South Korean and U.S. forces engaged.
The heart of the German economy is making and exporting the big-ticket, complex goods that make global business run: everything from cars and locomotives to factory machinery, aircraft and construction equipment.
Prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security under a Beijing-imposed law that has effectively stifled the city’s once-thriving pro-democracy movement.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday that 19 of the members of the G20 agreed to address streams of “cheap exports” that cause global economic imbalances, but China dissented.
Religious freedom advocates lambasted the two-year prison term given in Seoul Monday to Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, the 83-year-old leader of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, as an assault on religious liberty.
A high-profile summit reuniting President Trump and Kim Jong-un would check a lot of boxes for Mr. Trump, who has openly pined for a Nobel Peace Prize. But don’t expect any substantive breakthroughs or concessions, experts say: The North Korean leader doesn’t need Mr. Trump this time around.
In an oddly coincidental development, both Pyongyang and Seoul replaced their defense ministers over the weekend.
Ohio State University will pay the federal government $2.1 million for failing to report Chinese funding for a climate scientist who was working under Beijing’s Thousand Talents foreign expert recruitment program, the Justice Department announced Monday.
Leaders of Russia, China, India and Iran will meet this week in Kyrgyzstan for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, as the non-Western partners look to strengthen ties amid growing world tension.
The leaders of China, Russia and India gathered with other heads of state in Kyrgyzstan on Monday for the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a group billed as a counterweight to U.S. global influence.
President Trump appeared to dismiss U.S. national security concerns over large-scale Chinese intelligence collection, espionage and cyberattacks in a recent exchange with reporters noting similar U.S. practices.
The social media platform X said it uncovered a Chinese influence operation to turn Americans against AI development and construction of data centers.
The Marine Corps is using an Australian cargo ship to develop new tactics for coastal warfare as the service continues preparing for operations in the shallow coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific region.
The Trump administration desperately needs Western Hemisphere partners to help battle powerful drug cartels and stem the tide of Chinese influence across the Americas. It may have a new one in Keiko Fujimori, Peru’s recently inaugurated president.
The Chinese military is studying the use of artificial intelligence to boost the capabilities of its hypersonic missiles in defeating U.S. missile defenses, according to an Air Force think tank report.
North Korea now reportedly has 60 to 120 nuclear warheads, with a vast arsenal of short-, medium- and long-range ballistic missiles to deliver them to South Korea, Japan and the U.S.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday announced Operation Economic Outcast, promising that new measures against Iran will result in its unprecedented economic isolation.
The State Department on Wednesday called China’s construction of a new military base on a disputed South China Sea island “unacceptable” and detrimental to peace and stability.
Chinese artist Gao Zhen was sentenced to three years in prison on Tuesday for “infringing upon the reputation of heroes” over his satirical works of art, including statues of China’s former leader Mao Zedong.
Adm. Daryl Caudle, chief of naval operations, says the Iran war and other conflicts in the Middle East are presenting challenges to the Navy in keeping China at bay in the Pacific.
Federal agents shut down two hacking platforms used by a China state-sponsored group to conceal cyberattacks on U.S. targets, including the Justice Department, NASA and the U.S. Senate.
The agony suffered by Park Yong-sik, 79, can never be healed, but he hopes the world can learn something from what he has endured.
A federal jury in Chicago convicted a former Philips Medical Systems engineer Friday of conspiring to steal the company’s trade secrets and bring them to a Chinese competitor, according to the Justice Department.
U.S. government labs, including the Energy Department and Air Force Research Laboratory, exchanged research with Chinese military institutes over the past decade. A new report shows how deep the pipeline runs.
China indicated Tuesday that it would not adhere to demands from the Treasury Department to cut off all economic ties to Iran.
America has an important tradition of applying the maxim of “relentless retaliation” when it comes to our counterterrorism operations, and it needs to follow through with this policy in the case of Iran.
Hundreds of American and allied companies and universities collaborated with Chinese defense institutes engaged in developing advanced military capabilities for Beijing’s military, according to an Air Force think tank report made public Monday.
Taiwanese prosecutors charged nine people Monday, including one from Nvidia and two from Super Micro, for illegally exporting “high-end AI servers” to mainland China, adding another wave of turbulence in the AI rivalry between China and the United States.
The U.S. Marine Corps called off biennial drills with South Korea on Monday, one week after President Trump unexpectedly ordered the downscaling of separate Ulchi Freedom Shield drills last week.
China is slowly encircling Taiwan.
A cross-party group of Japanese lawmakers headed to Beijing on Monday seeking to mend strained ties following Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s comment on Taiwan that angered China and led to tensions that have spilled over into the economy.
Computer programmer Fei Zhaojun’s boss asked him if artificial intelligence could soon replace humans in coding jobs. Two weeks later, he was laid off from his job in Beijing, together with about 160 of his colleagues.
Thailand ‘s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, already facing a flood crisis in the country’s north, held an urgent meeting on Sunday with high-level security officials in response to coordinated violence overnight in three southern provinces where a small-scale Muslim insurgency is active.
China said on Sunday it was postponing its planned ambitious Chang’e-7 lunar mission, which was set to carry out explorations including searching for water ice on the moon.
China’s army is improving attack helicopter skills against U.S. missile defenses and ground vehicles, and recently practiced live-fire missile strikes against mockups of Patriot anti-missile launchers and Army Humvees, according to an Army think tank report.
Russia has conducted missile tests off Japanese-claimed islands in the Northwestern Pacific, escalating a weeklong Moscow-Tokyo diplomatic row in the area.
Chinese President Xi Jinping this week challenged President Trump’s push to re-establish the Monroe Doctrine in the Western Hemisphere — a strategy that calls for preventing China and other foreign powers from dominating the region.
The Ulchi Freedom Shield — the joint annual military drills between the U.S. and South Korea focusing on countering the drone and cyberattack threat from North Korea — ended today.
Taiwan’s government on Thursday proposed a record-high defense budget of 1.12 trillion Taiwan dollars ($35 billion) for next year, signaling intensifying efforts to deter China’s military threats.
A Chinese court sentenced Chinese property tycoon Hui Ka Yan to life in prison for financial crimes linked to the collapse of his Evergrande real estate group, once the world’s most heavily indebted developer.
North Korea launched a barrage of ballistic missiles toward the sea on Thursday, South Korea’s military said, a day after the North shrugged off a U.S. decision to scale back military drills with South Korea in an apparent bid to resume diplomacy.
American submarines are a key focus in protecting U.S. military advantages against foreign enemies, along with new national security space systems know-how, according to a recent White House strategy report.
Is your refrigerator spying on you? If it was manufactured in China, it could be.
