The United States Secretary of Defense proposed to ASEAN defense ministers the building of shared maritime domain awareness and said China had shown a lack of respect and threatened their territorial ...

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The U.S. secretary of defense said Saturday that Beijing's aggression in the South China Sea has "increased", and pledged to ...

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U.S. Department of Defense, the Ministry of War, Secretary Pete Hegseth stated on the 1st at the ASEAN (Association of ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday urged Southeast Asian nations to stand firm and strengthen their maritime forces to counter China’s increasingly “destabilizing” actions in the South ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told China’s defense minister Friday that the U.S. will “stoutly defend its interests” in the Indo-Pacific region.Hegseth emphasized “the importance of maintaining a ...

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The Armed Forces of the Philippines said on Saturday that its forces staged naval and air drills with counterparts from the ...

US Defense Secretary urged Southeast Asian nations to stand strong against China’s increasingly “destabilizing” actions in the South China Sea.