Asia Pacific

President Trump’s decision to curtail the military exercises came as allies question the US commitment to longstanding alliances.

The decision marks a milestone in Evergrande’s saga after the troubled property developer defaulted on more than $422 billion in liabilities.

Pyongyang’s weapons test came a day after a US decision to scale back military drills with South Korea in an apparent bid to resume diplomacy.

Russian President Vladimir Putin singles out AUKUS submarine plan as he warns the Indo-Pacific is ‘becoming increasingly prone to conflict’. 

Anthony Albanese has discussed joint anti-crime efforts with his Thai counterpart — just hours after fresh details emerged in the case of an Australian man accused of killing a teenager in Pattaya.

China is exporting more than AI models. It wants its data to influence the world’s chatbots, raising fears that Beijing’s narratives will spread with the technology.

The comments from Seoul came after the US President cited his good relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for his decision.

THE ECONOMIST: The Taliban represent the farthest end of a global continuum of restrictions on female lives, writes Sarah Little.

For years, the Pacific islands managed to persuade more powerful allies that climate change was the region’s defining security challenge and pushed them to act. That may change.

Zhu Rongji, who as China's premier pushed through a dizzying array of changes that helped ignite China's explosive economic boom, has died at 97.

ANDREW GREENE: The growth of the two nations’ relationship has been truly remarkable, which makes Anthony Albanese’s crass comments about the country’s female leader so baffling.

Beijing has made its displeasure known after New Zealand’s Foreign Minister told a Chinese-born MP to ‘go back to your own country’.

Japan has been hit by at least 100 aftershocks as the rescue mission begins for the trapped and missing with a predicted 34-degree day adding to the urgency.

EXCLUSIVE: Senior Australian military officials have snubbed a major celebration held at the Chinese embassy as tensions between both nations simmer following Beijing’s missile test in the Pacific this month.

An international fracas involving Chinese diplomats has erupted on the sidelines of the Labor Party’s National Conference after The Nightly revealed a Taiwanese representative had been invited to the event.

A wave of new releases from China is testing Washington’s approach to regulating artificial intelligence.

EXCLUSIVE: Australia’s army has been forced to defend its distinctive paint job on ‘enemy’ tanks during a warfare exercise in Victoria.

The country’s top diplomat has confronted her Lao counterpart amid fury over the response to the deaths of two Australian teens.