Category: Military

By Ludovic Ehret China will "crush" any foreign incursion into its sovereign territory, including in the South China Sea, a senior Beijing military official said Thursday on the sidelines of a defense forum. Washington and ...

A senior U.S. military official warned his Chinese counterpart against Beijing's "dangerous" moves in the South China Sea during the first talks between the commanders. Washington and Beijing remain at odds on issues from trade to the status of self-ruled Taiwan ...

By Cecil Morella The United States has offered to escort Manila's resupply missions to outposts in the disputed South China Sea, the Philippine military chief said Thursday, following Beijing's intensifying efforts to block them. General ...

Top White House aide Jake Sullivan raised the importance of stability in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea while planning more direct military talks in a rare one-on-one with a senior Chinese army official Thursday, Washington said. Sullivan arrived in ...

By Lukas Fiala With the next Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) only a few short weeks away, we’ve all been busy reading the tea leaves of what the summit might mean for the increasingly complex and multifaceted Africa-China relationship. One area ...

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos on Sunday condemned what he called "illegal and reckless" actions by China's air force last week against a Filipino military plane patrolling over a disputed South China Sea reef. Two Chinese Air Force aircraft undertook a "dangerous ...

The Philippine military on Saturday accused China's air force of "dangerous and provocative actions" against one of its planes patrolling over a disputed South China Sea reef. Two China air force aircraft "executed a dangerous maneuver at around 9:00am and dropped ...

By Matthew Walsh with Cecil Morella in Manila China on Wednesday carried out a combat patrol to test "strike capabilities" near Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, a flashpoint area also claimed by the Philippines.

After several weeks of relative calm between China and the Philippines over territorial disputes in the South China Sea, tensions between the two sides flared anew over the weekend near Sabina Shoal — a remote reef located 139km from the Philippines province of Palawan.

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 ...

China on Wednesday warned the Philippines it risks "greater insecurity for itself", after the United States said it would provide $500 million in additional military funding to Manila in the face of Beijing's growing assertiveness. In Manila on Tuesday, U.S. Secretary ...