Category: Asia Pacific

Australia, Japan and the U.S. on Sunday committed to closer military cooperation in training their forces as the countries deepened their ties in a bid to counter China's military strength. Australia's Minister of Defense Richard Marles hosted the U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba expressed "serious concerns" over the situation in the South China Sea to Chinese President Xi Jinping in their first in-person talks, Tokyo's foreign ministry said Saturday. But the pair agreed to work to expand cultural exchanges ...

China's foreign minister told his new Japanese counterpart during a phone call on Wednesday that he hopes to make progress in bilateral ties while also warning of external "interference." Tensions have recently been building between Beijing and Tokyo recently as China ...

Japan's new Prime Minister, Shigeru Ishiba, warned in his first policy speech Friday that "today's Ukraine could be tomorrow's East Asia" and dubbed the country's low birth rate a "quiet emergency." "Many fear that today's Ukraine could be tomorrow's East Asia. ...

By Brendan Smialowski with Danny Kemp in Washington U.S. President Joe Biden was caught on a hot mic Saturday telling the leaders of Australia, India, and Japan that an aggressive China is "testing us," in remarks that risked undercutting a summit ...

The Philippines and Germany have agreed to deepen military cooperation, their defense ministers said on Sunday, as Manila pushes back after a series of confrontations with China. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius and his Philippine counterpart Gilberto Teodoro met in Manila ...

A Vietnamese coast guard vessel is en route to the Philippines for joint training exercises, Hanoi said, the first such exchange between the countries in dispute with Beijing over the South China Sea. Beijing claims almost the entire South China Sea, ...

The Philippine and Japanese navies held their first joint exercise on Friday in the South China Sea as the two U.S. allies boost security ties in the face of China's growing pressure. The drills followed the signing less than a month ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday he would meet his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi next week at an ASEAN ministerial meeting in Laos. "I speak to him on a fairly regular basis, and I'll be seeing him next week, ...

By Max Delaney NATO leaders on Thursday sought to bolster ties with Asian partners after slamming China as a "decisive enabler" of Russia's war. At the end of a summit in Washington, they held talks with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.

More than 70 years after Japan's invasion and occupation of the Philippines during World War II, the countries on Monday signed a defence pact that allows them to deploy troops on each other's soil. The agreement was finalized during high-level defense ...

The Philippines and Japan signed a key defense pact on Monday that will allow the deployment of troops on each other's territory as they boost ties in the face of China's growing assertiveness. The Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) was finalised in ...