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The United States House of Representatives on Thursday passed an omnibus military spending Bill with weapons funding for Taiwan and other programmes to help the island withstand pressure from Beijing, spelling choppier waters ahead for…

The United States and Australia agreed Tuesday to step up engagement with Japan in military areas, such as by inviting Tokyo to join more of their exercises, amid China's growing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific. Following talks involving…

The US has proposed selling Taiwan as many as 100 of its most advanced Patriot air-defence missiles along with radar and support equipment in a deal valued at US$882 million, according to a State Department notice. The proposal was made…

About 45,000 people in a central county remained without electricity on Sunday afternoon after two electric substations were damaged by gunfire the night before in what officials called an “intentional” attack. The outages across Moore…

An extraordinary anti-democratic statement from former President Donald Trump, suggesting the “termination” of the Constitution to overturn the 2020 election, drew a degree of bipartisan condemnation over the weekend, with a flood from…

American President Joe Biden hosted a reception at the White House on Sunday night for the annual Kennedy Centre Honours, celebrating the work of artistes including the band U2, actor George Clooney, singers Amy Grant and Gladys Knight, and…

Defence leaders at a security forum on Saturday lamented the United States’ lagging economic engagement in the Indo-Pacific region, noting that it failed to keep up with China and even risked undermining America’s security presence in Asia.…

US officials have determined that four of eight major Chinese solar companies under investigation in recent months tried to evade tariffs by funneling products into the United States through Southeast Asian countries, in a trade case that…

Japan, the United States and South Korea have tightened their sanctions against North Korea to curb Pyongyang's weapons programs following its latest intercontinental ballistic missile test in November, targeting the country's officials and…

U.S. President Joe Biden and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Thursday agreed to continue to support Ukraine's defense against Russia's aggression, while affirming the importance of maintaining peace over Taiwan, a self-ruled…