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China didn't take a call from the Pentagon after the U.S. shot down its spy balloon over the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday.

China declined Washington's request for a secure call between Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Minister of National Defense Wei Fenghe, the Pentagon said.

The spy balloon floated its way close to a nuclear missile site, the home of U.S. Strategic Command and the military base that is home to the B-2 stealth bomber ...

It’s not every day that a Chinese spy balloon is spotted flying across the United States. But when the Pentagon announced Feb. 2 that a Chinese surveillance balloon had been seen hovering over the ...

The flap with the United States raises concerns about how China wields its power in a climate where one wrong move could set off an accidental conflict.

Australia is walking a fine line between the US, which it relies on for security, and its important trade partner China as fears grow of a potential conflict in the Indo-Pacific. Defence and foreign affairs correspondent Daniel Hurst recently interviewed defence minister Richard Marles on Australia’s position in the global contest for power
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We’ve long reported about the need to protect American technology amid Chinese efforts to steal it. But today’s cover story makes the case for the possibility that the way we’re doing it is causing ...

Restrictions on Russia’s oil trade are raising the stakes in a protracted economic standoff that is reshaping the global energy market.

How wok cooking—the method behind dishes from kung pao chicken to pad see ew—and Asian communities fit into the debate over gas stoves.

Texas Republicans are renewing calls for the release of Mark Swidan, a 38-year-old American on death row in China on drug charges the U.N. says is wrongfully detained.