China's aggressiveness in the Indo-Pacific is rooted in long-standing strategic ambitions independent of any U.S. policy, and ...

Washington and Manila support regional and global security by increasing readiness and strengthening deterrence, the U.S.

The U.S. Pacific Fleet commander says China has failed to intimidate rival claimant states into surrendering their sovereign interests in the South China Sea despite its intensifying “bullying tactics ...

The Philippines is extending a cautious hand to China for cooperation in "non-sensitive areas," even as it vows to uphold the ...

China has sanctioned a former Filipino lawmaker, Francis Tolentino, who sponsored legislation that marks out the Philippines’ ...

The so-called South China Sea arbitration of 2016, initiated unilaterally by the Philippines, has triggered "a myriad of ...

The Chinese foreign minister said the ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague was “orchestrated and ...

Adm. Stephen Koehler gave assurances of U.S. commitment to help defend freedom of passage and the rule of law in the ...

China has sanctioned a former Filipino lawmaker, Francis Tolentino, who sponsored legislation that marks out the Philippines’ ...

MANILA: Despite rising tension in the major regional flashpoint of the South China Sea, the Philippines' top defence official ...

Francis “Tol” Tolentino helped author two recent pieces of legislation asserting Manila’s claims in the disputed waterway.

Tuesday's maritime confrontation occurred when three Chinese coast guard ships challenged a group of Philippine vessels about 60 miles off the westernmost Philippine province of Palawan, Ray Powell, ...