Indonesia will expand its existing defence partnerships and step up its handling of strategic issues impacting its sovereignty, including maritime security and the safety of sea passage and ...

Beijing has repeatedly asserted sovereignty over most of the South China Sea and accused rival claimant states, including the Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia of encroachment. China has ...

MANILA, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The Philippines and the United States carried out joint maritime exercises for a fifth time in the South China Sea ... allowing the expansion of military bases that ...

Contingency Planning Memoranda identify plausible scenarios that could have serious consequences for U.S. interests and propose measures to both prevent and mitigate them. The risk of conflict in ...

Beijing faces greater risks of aerial rather than maritime confrontations with the Philippines in the South China Sea, a leading Chinese analyst has warned. The note of caution from Hu Bo ...

Ties between China and U.S. ally the Philippines have soured in the past few years, with spats frequent as Manila, under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, pushes back at what it sees as aggression by ...

A Philippine security official said Tuesday that China is “pushing us to the wall” with growing aggression in the disputed South China Sea and warned that “all options are on the table” for Manila’s ...

They follow a series of clashes between the two countries’ coastguards over the past year around disputed South China Sea features.

MANILA, Jan 16 (Reuters) - The Philippines and China agreed to seek common ground and find ways to cooperate despite their disagreements in the South China Sea, their foreign ministries said on ...

MANILA (Reuters) -- The Philippines and China agreed to seek common ground and find ways to cooperate despite their disagreements in the South China Sea, their foreign ministries said on Thursday ...

MANILA: The Philippines and China agreed to seek common ground and find ways to cooperate despite their disagreements in the South China Sea, their foreign ministries said on Thursday (Jan 16), as ...