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U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, front left, shakes hands with his Vietnamese counterpart Gen. Phung Quang Thanh, front right, after the two signed a joint vision statement between the two defense ministries in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, June 1, 2015. Carter is on a three-day visit to Vietnam to deepen military cooperation between the two former foes. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh.)

National Security

Pentagon chief shores up Asian allies amid China flap

Tara Copp · June 2, 2015 1:54 pm

The New York Times Tries and Fails to Prove that the U.S. Spends Too Little on Rail

Ethan Epstein · May 21, 2015 2:38 pm

China’s Xi wants to address Congress, a communist first

Paul Bedard · May 18, 2015 11:00 am

Dixmude, background, the third French Mistral-class amphibious assault ship, and French stealth frigate Aconit dock at Wusong military dockyard, in Shanghai, China, Saturday, May 9, 2015. (Chinatopix via AP)Â

National Security

Lawmakers want more pushback against China’s ‘Great Wall of Sand’

Charles Hoskinson · May 14, 2015 9:00 am

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks before a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

In address to Congress, Japan’s prime minister calls for trade accord

Susan Ferrechio · April 29, 2015 5:15 pm

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner answers questions at the Export-Import Bank of the United States 2010 Annual conference March 12, 2010 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Ex-Im’s fight against foreign competition is as fake as pro wrestling

Timothy P. Carney · April 28, 2015 9:00 pm

Obama defended the ongoing push for the trade deal in a press conference in the Rose Garden with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the top counterpart in the trade talks. (AP Photo)Â

Obama: Pacific trade deal would be ‘most progressive trade bill in history’

Joseph Lawler · April 28, 2015 5:17 pm

Obama, Abe tout trade deal

Obama, Abe tout trade deal

Susan Crabtree · April 28, 2015 9:00 am

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will speak to a joint session of Congress on April 29, coinciding with the seventieth anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. (AP Photo)

Japan’s man of the hour

Arthur Herman · April 28, 2015 9:00 am

The latest destroyer Izumo of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) is seen trough the cherry blossoms in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, Tuesday, March 31, 2015. (AP Photo)

National Security

Japan’s new role: Global in scope, regional in reality

Tara Copp · April 28, 2015 9:00 am

National Security

Japanese forces to go global under new U.S. agreement

Tara Copp · April 27, 2015 3:00 pm

The latest push by President Obama to win fast-track trade promotion authority in order to subsequently gain approval of a major trade deal with 11 Asian countries is a bridge too far, several conservative groups argue. (AP Photo)

In trade pitch to Dems, Obama has to watch his right flank too

Susan Crabtree · April 22, 2015 9:00 am