U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken opened his first full day of meetings in China on Thursday by talking with local government officials in Shanghai.

China blasted the latest package of U.S. military assistance to Taiwan, saying such funding was pushing the self-governing island republic into a “dangerous situation.”

Guerrilla fighters from the main ethnic Karen fighting force battling Myanmar’s military government have withdrawn from the eastern border town of Myawaddy two weeks after forcing the army to give up its defense.

Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister has accused President Joe Biden of disparaging the South Pacific island nation by implying that Biden’s uncle had been eaten by “cannibals” during WWII. “They never found the body because there used to be — there were a lot of cannibals for real in that part of New Guinea” Biden said.

TikTok said legislation passed by Congress on Tuesday evening that would force its Chinese parent company to sell its stake or face a total ban of the app in America is “unconstitutional,” and the company will challenge it in court.

The U.S. secretary of state is on his second visit to China in a year, but progress on issues including Ukraine and sparring in the South China Sea will be hard to make.

The U.S. Navy is sending an aircraft to help scour the Pacific for seven Japanese aviators missing since two helicopters crashed on Saturday, Defense Minister Minoru Kihara said.

A high-level North Korean economic delegation was on its way to Iran, the North’s state media said, for what would be the two countries’ first known talks since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Air Force’s 33rd Rescue Squadron, based on Okinawa, is getting a new hangar to match its new rides.

The number of flights Japanese fighter pilots made to intercept Chinese and Russian aircraft approaching Japan were down by 14% the past fiscal year, their lowest response in a decade, according to Japan’s Ministry of Defense.