Mr. Ramos-Horta is under mounting pressure to sustain his nation, Asia’s youngest and one of its poorest. Home to about 1.4 million people, East Timor is one half of an island that lies near the ...

Trump also put tariffs on Cambodia—a whopping 49 percent for one of East Asia’s poorest countries—and even Australia, a critical security ally that has a trade surplus with the United States.

U.S. Patriot missile defense systems were recently moved from Asia to the Middle East amid ongoing fighting ... The Patriot is considered one of the military’s most advanced air defense systems ...