Simon Denyer

President Biden was making a point as he welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to the White House on Friday, using the first in-person visit by a foreign leader to emphasize that his administration sees Asia as its highest priority. The…

TOKYO — North Korea appears to be taking steps toward a new test of a powerful submarine-launched missile, U.S. weapons experts said, as it steadily dials up the pressure on President-elect Joe Biden. Last week, a beaming Kim Jong Un presided over…

KABUL — Unknown gunmen killed six people Wednesday in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, including a prominent Japanese doctor recognized by Afghanistan’s government for his service to the nation, local officials said. Tetsu Nakamura, head of…

TOKYO — The U.S. military has ended search operations for five missing Marines involved in an accident off the coast of Japan five days ago, declaring all of them dead. Two Marines were rescued from the ocean after an F/A 18 Hornet fighter jet and a…

BEIJING — When President Trump withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal in January, critics said he was leaving a vacuum at the heart of the Asia-Pacific region, ceding the United States’ role as regional economic leader. On Sunday,…

BEIJING — The latest was Kenya. Before that: Lesotho, Vanuatu and Afghanistan. The list of countries backing Beijing’s stance in the South China Sea just keeps growing — China’s Foreign Ministry boasted last week that nearly 60 had swung behind the…

This video is currently not available LONDON — People around the world held vigils Monday to honor the victims of the Orlando shooting, with Sydney’s Harbour Bridge and Auckland’s Sky Tower bathed in rainbow colors as night fell in Australia and New…

CHINA’S BACK YARD | This is part of an occasional series examining China’s efforts to win friends and clients in Asia and to assert a more dominant role across the continent. Slowly but surely, a four-lane highway is beginning to take shape on the…

URUMQI, China — On a rocky hilltop close to the city of Urumqi in China’s troubled Xinjiang region, five men appear on a video wearing black bandanas decorated with Arabic writing. A black flag used by jihadist groups across the world flutters behind…

URUMQI, China — The brand-new bullet train slices past the edge of the Gobi desert, through gale-swept grasslands and past snowy peaks, a high-altitude, high-speed and high-tech manifestation of China’s newly re-imagined Silk Road meant to draw the…

The hunt for Malaysia's missing flight MH370 is perhaps the greatest and the largest-scale search in aviation history, as well as its biggest mystery. Since March 8, thousands of military personnel and civilians from 26 countries across at least four…

BEIJING — The United States and China said Wednesday that they are determined to avoid conflict and maintain peace with each other, but deep differences over maritime security and mutual recriminations over cyber-espionage continued to loom as…

This video is currently not available Even after Malaysia's prime minister confirmed the flight "ended" in the Indian Ocean, many questions still remain. Here's a chronology of the baffling aviation mystery. Updated Mar. 26, 2014. (Gillian Brockell…

BEIJING – China and Japan are not talking any more, and the United States is hardly being listened to. A dispute over a remote chain of islands in the East China Sea has spiraled into an increasingly dangerous standoff between Beijing and Tokyo in…

BEIJING — Armed with tens of billions of dollars in investment deals and romantic tales of ancient explorers, Chinese President Xi Jinping has spent much of the past month promoting his vision of two new “Silk Roads” to connect his country to the…

MAQBOOLPURA, India — A boy just 12 years old was offering opium and hashish on a scrubby patch of land outside this village on a recent day. His cellphone rang incessantly as he proudly related that he earned hundreds of dollars a month dealing drugs…

NEW DELHI — The economic relationship between the world’s two largest democracies, the United States and India, is supposed to be the bedrock for what President Obama calls “one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century,” but cracks are…

NEW DELHI — Saying he was saddened and shocked by the speed with which his friends in Washington had abandoned him, the former president of Maldives warned Thursday that radical Islam has gained ground across the sprawling Indian Ocean archipelago…

NEW DELHI — The Indian government appears to be playing down evidence of Iranian involvement in last week’s bomb attack on an Israeli diplomat here, perhaps out of concern that any such evidence might put it under more international pressure to…

On Friday, India is set to reach a major milestone in the global battle against polio, recording a full year without a single new case of the disease in the country that was long its epicenter and its biggest exporter. It is a massive global public…