President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. said his brief exchange with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the conclusion of the 2025 ...

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday urged Southeast Asian nations to stand firm and strengthen their maritime forces to counter China's increasingly destabilising actions in the South China ...

GYEONGJU, South Korea - President Ferdinand ''Bongbong'' Marcos Jr. said Saturday that the government would monitor the impact on the Philippines of a truce in the trade war between the United States ...

GYEONGJU, South Korea - President Ferdinand ''Bongbong'' Marcos Jr. on Saturday expressed hope that the new joint task force between the Philippines and the United States would lower tensions in the ...

The U.S. has deployed troops and anti-ship missiles into the northern Philippines as part of almost continuous, joint war drills throughout the country. One goal is to block the Bashi Channel and deny ...

A report by a Washington-based think tank has revealed a tense 15-hour stand-off last month between China’s coastguard and South Korean vessels in a contested area of the Yellow Sea.

US troops and missiles positioned in northern Philippines aim to block Chinese naval access through the Bashi Channel amid tensions.

Tian Junli, a spokesperson of the People's Liberation Army's Southern Theater Command, said the joint patrol, with unnamed partners, "seriously undermined regional peace and stability".

United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth held talks on Friday (Oct 31) with counterparts from China and India, among a ...

The U.S. Secretary of Defense said Friday he told his Chinese counterpart during talks in Malaysia that Washington would “stoutly defend” its interests in the Indo-Pacific. He also signed a new ...