Nato

The leadership in Beijing sticks to its criticism of the Atlantic defense alliance. NATO "fabricates a Chinese threat," Foreign Office spokeswoman Mao Ning said on Wednesday in Beijing on the occasion of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's visit to Japan and South Korea.

Von Newsdesk

A Taiwan air force officer revealed details on Wednesday of a rare interaction between the island's military and NATO, describing how he had attended a six month academic program with senior officials in Italy. Wu Bong-yeng, a lieutenant colonel in the Taiwanese Air Force, told the press on a trip to Hsinchu Air Base in northern Taiwan that he attended a six-month course at the NATO Defense College in Rome in 2021 and returned to Taiwan last January.

Von Newsdesk

Almost a year after the start of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, things have worked out after all: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and EU Council President Charles Michel signed a new declaration on cooperation at the military alliance's headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday. The text builds on cooperation agreements from 2016 and 2018.

Von Stephan Israel

The economic and geopolitical importance of undersea data cables is growing. But so far, their protection has been inadequate. More and more nations are reacting, and experts see an urgent need for action.

Von Lisa-Martina Klein