The US will help bolster the Philippines’ arsenal and step up joint military exercises, Manila’s defense chief said, as ...

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has pledged to bolster Manila’s capacity to push back against Beijing’s growing assertiveness ...

ABOARD BRP JOSE RIZAL, South China Sea — The United States, Japan and the Philippines on Friday staged joint naval drills to ...

The same day, the United States, Japan and the Philippines held naval drills in the South China Sea. The Philippine embassy ...

real-time surveillance over vast areas in the West Philippine Sea – Manila’s term for the South China Sea it considers within its exclusive economic zone – where Beijing’s territorial ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine defense chief on Monday called China's expansive claims in the South China Sea “the biggest fiction and lie” that no Southeast Asian country would accept and said ...

What is clear is that China is not pausing its provocations. Its aggressive conduct in the West Philippine Sea – precisely in Philippine waters and not just in the wider South China Sea ...

Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro fired off his latest tirade against China’s increasingly assertive actions in the region on the same day that the Philippine coastguard separately reported new ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.