Michele Skalicky talked with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly, journalist and host of ATC, on Wednesday, September 10, 2025.

For Japan, the Sino-Russian alignment in wartime narratives is more than a contest over memory – it generates real geopolitical effects.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected a new missile factory ahead of his first visit to China in six years. Kim is ...

China is set to host a grand military parade in Tiananmen Square, commemorating 80 years since the end of World War II. This year’s event is historic—not just for its scale, but for the rare gathering ...

The United States, South Korea and Japan this week are conducting “advanced” trilateral air and naval exercises in East Asia, ...

Beyond the bonhomie of Xi Jinping's unprecedented meeting with Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un last week, there are limits to what the European Union described as an "autocratic alliance" defying the ...

The Putin-Kim-Xi alliance is likely to push Japan and South Korea — both of which currently have relatively moderate stances toward China — to distance themselves from Beijing and further strengthen ...

That treaty remains China’s only formal alliance to date. Two decades later, similar fears drove China’s 1979 invasion of ...

The United States, South Korea and Japan opened an air and naval exercise off a South Korean island Monday in their latest joint drill condemned by North Korea as a “reckless show of strength.” The ...

Hot mics have picked up a private conversation about organ transplants and human life expectancy between the Russian and Chinese presidents. Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping were ...

The plan reflects North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's view that nuclear forces alone have limits as a deterrent, and that ...

Chinese police investigating online criticism of a military parade celebrating “Victory Day” are targeting North Korean ...