Despite the pressures of new technology in its own ranks and a fast-developing Chinese navy sailing into view, the ‘USS George Washington’ continues to rule the Asia-Pacific seas. Monocle climbs aboard the American aircraft…
Squabbling over islands in the South China Sea, shopping for warships with Algeria, and boosting the Bangladeshi military.
The Philippines’ plans to develop an island in the South China Sea, we also hear why Sony is cutting 6 per cent of its workforce.
The latest on the continuing diplomatic and military spats in the South China Sea, we hear from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Raymond Bonner on the inquest into the death of Shane Todd in Singapore, and find out why…
Wednesday 10 November
It looked as though China stepped up the game to challenge the US, or at least US space-supremacy, at the end of last month when it launched another satellite in its second-generation Compass Navigation Satellite System …
Monday 6 June
Global security in the 20th century was largely an Atlantic question; in the 21st century it may well be a Pacific one. The rise of China is understandably making Asian defence ministers nervous, but at last weekend’s…
Wednesday 3 November
Feeling unloved at home after a walloping in yesterday’s mid-term elections, US President Barack Obama is heading to Asia – as far from America as you can get – in search of a sympathetic audience.
Tuesday 8 December
About 1.3 billion people sitting around the mother of all fires: that’s how I see China in the great climate debate.
Monday 17 December
At some point between Israel’s autumn strike on Hamas’ top man in Gaza and the later launch into orbit of a rocket from Kim Jong Un, an event in other coordinates riled politicians into jingoistic fervour.
Tuesday 28 September
Senior Vietnamese politicians are on a low-key road trip around Europe, picking up new friends and cementing partnerships with some unlikely countries.
A new multipurpose "port complex" in South Korea, an election in Mongolia and new divorce laws in India.
Friday 15 March
As our New York bureau chief packs her bags ready for an equivalent posting in the Far East she has some parting words of criticism – constructive, of course.
Why 2013 will be a year of economic and political uncertainty in Asia, and the politician Jakarta has high hopes for.
They might not make headlines, but there are numerous border disputes that could spark a crisis at any time (although we hope Canada and the US would avoid war over their quarrel regarding lobster-rich waters). Monocle…
Chine beefs up its air force again, and India builds a strike force to ready itself for Himalayan border disputes.
The latest military shenanigans, including China's reassurances to the US and a Korean-led jet project.
In a city known for its preference to raze rather than save, finding an old building among Hong Kong’s gleaming skyscrapers is a challenge. Marvel then at the Tai O Heritage Hotel: housed in a 110-year-old police station…
The once-neglected southern isle of Hainan is China’s newest and biggest tourism hub, thanks to a €381bn revamp with new palatial hotels, airports, a highway and rail links. But could this be a front for covert military…
The one part of Yemen that's still paradise, plus the US creates a new naval base in Singapore.
Trouble in the Indian Ocean, India modernises its military, and sales of South Korea's jets experience lift off.
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