The Chinese government is protesting the latest American announcements of military sales and assistance to Taiwan, warning the United States that it is “playing with fire.”

Many in the Modi government are hopeful of warmer U.S. ties with the incoming Trump administration. At the same time, India ran a trade surplus of some $40 billion with the U.S. last year that risks putting it in Trump’s sights.

Santa and Mrs. Claus this week took supersized modes of transportation to southeast Alaska, riding in a C17 military cargo plane and a camouflaged Humvee from the airport to Yakutat to deliver Christmas to children in the Tlingit village.

The Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials, which is leading a joint investigation with police and military authorities on Yoon’s brief martial law declaration, said it plans to question Yoon on charges of orchestrating a rebellion and abuse of authority.

The capture by the Arakan Army of a strategically important regional army headquarters in Rakhine State would put it a step closer to seizing control of the entire state, a goal not achieved by any of the several other rebel groups in other parts of Myanmar.

U.S. Army Gen. Paul LaCamera bid farewell Friday to the 28,500 troops he led in South Korea and urged them to “remain vigilant” against threats from North Korea and other potential adversaries who threatened “the international rules-based order.”

A U.S. airman convicted in Japanese court of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl on Okinawa has appealed the verdict.

The U.S. Coast Guard will join its Japanese and Indian counterparts for first-of-its-kind training in Tokyo Bay early next year in conjunction with an annual summit in Tokyo.

Cmdr. Daniel Ropp is exercising his artistic side with contributions to the Navy and local Japanese communities around Naval Air Facility Atsugi, finding joy in the impact his work has on others.

Known as the Part Time Bro, AMarie Castillo recently did sets for the New Sanno Hotel’s Catalina Wine Mixer and at Tokyo’s Comedy Bar, the only English-language comedy club in the city.