Japan has pledged has to provide more vessels to Vietnam as part of the country’s efforts to boost its security capabilities in the South China Sea. A bilateral accord extending grant aid worth 200 million yen ($1.7 million) was signed as part of a set of deals agreed between Japan and Vietnam. Source: SCMP
The U.S. military said it sent two Navy ships through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, its latest transit through the sensitive waterway, angering China at a time of tense relations between the world’s two biggest economies. Source: Reuters
A senior German diplomat was in Tehran on Thursday for meetings with Iranian officials to try to preserve the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and cool rising tensions in the region, a German diplomatic source told Reuters. Source: Reuters
- Iran has recently quadrupled its uranium production, a spokesperson for the nation’s atomic energy agency says.
- The nation has stopped complying with key parts of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
