After a reprieve and a change of tone, China is back to its aggressive policies in the South China Sea, and the U.S. is looking to balance.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo attacked China’s legal argument for expansion in the East and South China Seas, and established a maritime forum with Japan.

The Chinese Communist Party is slowly ossifying under Xi.

The fight over who could or should arbitrate the territorial disputes in the South China Sea is as bitter as the disputes themselves.

China’s new posture in East Asia may be softer now, but an ongoing fight with the Philippines over a building project in the Spratlys shows it hasn’t really changed.

Taiwan is making a rash of Naval procurements to strengthen its strategic defense against China.

The Japanese PM’s choice is not surprising given his policy positions, but it is still going to make Beijing unhappy.

The Philippines is building up its naval power and banding together with Seoul to counter Chinese aggression.

Chinese ships are developing a reef in the Spratly Islands into a major airstrip and a naval port, according to a recent defense report.

Japan and South Korea’s dispute over the Liancourt Rocks had been settling down with Seoul’s announcement that it would not seek to develop them. But now it’s heating up again.