The Biden administration is signaling the United States will return to a more traditional foreign policy in Asia. But it must engage allies and partners on more than just defense policy.

On September 2, North Korea conducted its sixth underground nuclear weapons test at Mount Mantap. The earthquake tremor measured 6.3 on the Richter scale, leading experts to conclude that the test was in the range of 50 to 140 kilotons of TNT. A second smaller tremor...

During the July 3 test, the Hwasong-14 traveled for around 40 minutes before landing in the Sea of Japan, inside Japan’s exclusive economic zone. The missile was launched on a highly lofted trajectory to an altitude of about 2,800 kilometers and traveled some 930...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India arrived in Washington on June 26 for his first visit to the United States during Donald Trump’s presidency. Late last week, news began spreading that the United States was considering selling 22 unmanned, unarmed, long-range maritime...

Nearly six years have passed since a loss of power caused by a tsunami triggered the meltdown of three nuclear power reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. In late January 2017, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the owner of the...

On Friday afternoon, President Obama signed an order banning the sale of a U.S. company to a Chinese firm. It is only the third time...

After years of negotiation, India and Japan signed an historic deal that would allow Japan to export nuclear technology, equipment, and material to India. This is the first time Japan has signed a nuclear...

On September 9, North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test—its second this year and the fifth since 2006. This latest nuclear test follows months of missile launches, even as the United Nations and individual states have imposed increasingly tough sanctions on...

In August 1945, the United States became the only country to detonate nuclear weapons in a military campaign. More than 200,000 people died in the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima on August 6 and on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Japan surrendered less than a week later, formally...