Christian Shepherd

• National Security

The video, taken from USS Chung-Hoon, shows China’s Luyang III cutting sharply across a U.S. destroyer’s course during an exercise in the Taiwan Strait.

• Asia

The U.S. and Chinese defense ministers, Lloyd Austin and Li Shangfu, traded accusations at the Shangri-La Dialogue, undercutting efforts for a diplomatic thaw.

• Asia

Victoria Park epitomizes the broader erosions in Hong Kong: In four years it has gone from candlelight vigil to heavily policed desolation to flag-waving carnival.

• Asia

Across China, local governments are struggling under a $23 trillion pile of debt. Beijing doesn't want to rescue them, but it also doesn't want them failing.

• Asia

The mercurial head of Tesla and Twitter, on his first visit in three years, said China and the U.S. were “conjoined twins” with inseparable interests.

• Environment

U.S.-China relations will determine the future of global warming, but it's difficult to set aside superpower rivalries in the bid to reduce emissions.

• Asia

Beijing also plans to expand its space station, part of an ambitious effort to boost its presence in space - and opening up a new sphere of rivalry with the U.S.

• Asia

The Chinese Communist Party's efforts to control religion appear to be spreading, with Hui Muslims in Yunnan trying to stop the demolition of part of a mosque.

• Asia

The move coincided with a new milestone for same-sex couples in Taiwan - they can now adopt - and underscored the lack of progress on LGBTQ issues in China.