America’s comparative advantage in advancing its interests is through the strengthening of its alliances and partnerships in ...

“Friends need to stand shoulder to shoulder to deter conflict, to ensure that there is free navigation, whether you call it the South China Sea or the West Philippine Sea.” “Peace through ...

MANILA, Philippines — US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that the Trump administration would work with allies to ramp up deterrence against threats across the world, including China’s ...

Philippine Secretary of National Defense Gilbert Teodoro on Monday laid out Manila’s plans to deter Chinese efforts in the ...

Tensions between Manila and Beijing have been simmering due to escalating and repeated confrontations in the West Philippine Sea in the last two years — the part of the South China Sea that ...

continues to uphold the country’s sovereign rights in the West Philippine Sea. The BRP Teresa Magbanua (MRRV 9701) is responding to the illegal presence of the China Coast Guard Vessel (CCGV) 3304, ...

Friends need to stand shoulder to shoulder to deter conflict to ensure that there's free navigation, whether you call it the South China Sea or the West Philippine Sea, we recognize that your country ...

revealed the presence of five China Coast Guard (CCG) vessels, according to Commodore Jay Tarriela, PCG spokesman on West Philippine Sea issues. Four Chinese maritime militia ships were detected ...

Before Manila, Hegseth will visit the state of Hawaii, home of the Indo-Pacific Command (Indopacom). Then he goes to Guam, ...

The Philippine Navy warned at the time that their presence posed security risks, given that the Navy already used Subic as its home port for warships involved in operations in the West Philippine Sea.