Malaysia is deploying security forces to an area where armed Philippine nationals have seized a town.

Stratfor Vice President of East and South Asia Analysis Rodger Baker discusses the increasing strategic and economic tensions between China and Japan.

Solar storms can disrupt electrical and communications equipment on Earth.

Stratfor East Asia analyst John Minnich examines how China's tightening of limits on domestic real estate lending will affect global commodities markets.

Beijing has found its large investment projects in Kachin state increasingly held hostage by ethnic conflicts.

Japan's lead in the development of methane hydrate extraction could give it an edge in the competition for future resources in the region.

Stratfor's Vice President of East and South Asia Analysis Rodger Baker explains the implications of the North Korean nuclear test on Pyongyang's relationship with China.

Pyongyang's third nuclear test appears to be its largest to date.

Methane hydrates offer a potentially abundant source of natural gas widely distributed across the globe.

The Chinese lock on the Japanese destroyer with a fire-control radar is a provocative move that could have elicited an aggressive Japanese response.