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.

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 ...

China marked the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender and the end of World War II in Asia last week with a display of its ...

Beyond the bonhomie of Xi Jinping's unprecedented meeting with Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un last week, there are limits to ...

Of the more than two dozen foreign leaders invited to Xi Jinping’s massive military parade in Beijing last week, no one ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the final test of a powerful solid-fuel engine for intercontinental ballistic ...

Kim Jong Un on Monday watched a test of North Korea’s new high-thrust rocket engine, setting the stage for Pyongyang to test its newest intercontinental ballistic missile ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping expressed his willingness to enhance strategic communications and cooperate closely with North ...