Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

The risk of a military confrontation between China and Vietnam is rising. Although the two countries have enjoyed close party-to-party ties for decades, since 2011 they have both asserted ...

In April 2004, The New York Times announced that Prime Minister Wen Jiabao “unexpectedly suspended plans for a massive dam system on the Nu (Salween) River in western China that scientists had ...

China's top steel destination, Vietnam, imposed temporary tariffs ranging from 19 to 28 percent on certain Chinese hot-rolled steel coil products on March 7. Citigroup estimates the 120-day duties ...

Vietnam will impose anti-dumping tariffs on steel from China, following South Korea and other nations in fighting back against surging supplies from the world’s biggest producer. The Southeast ...

China began live-fire drills in the Gulf of Tonkin after Vietnam established a new territorial baseline. The drills, running through Thursday, follow ongoing maritime disputes between China and ...

Vietnam’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAAV) has assessed the COMAC C909, reviewing its safety, performance, and regulatory ...

Vietnam is moving towards approving the country’s first purchases of Chinese-made regional passenger aircraft, in a boost for China’s efforts to expand the overseas market for its home-grown jets.

FILE - A Chinese military helicopter flies close to a Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic (BFAR) aircraft above Scarborough shoal on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Joeal Calupitan, File ...