China warned the US on Saturday against destabilizing East Asia after its new Defense Secretary James Mattis said Washington would rush to defend Japan in case of a conflict with Beijing. The remarks by China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang came after Mattis stated during a two-day official tour of ...
US Defense Secretary James Mattis arrived in South Korea Thursday on the first leg of a trip that also includes Japan, two key allies rattled by Donald Trump’s isolationist ascent to power. It is the first overseas tour by a senior official in the Trump administration as concerns rise about ...