Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. turned a routine question and answer session at a regional security forum in Seoul into a pointed confrontation with Beijing this ......
China's Ministry of National Defense released footage on September 2 showing People's Liberation Army warplanes and warships circling a reef in the South China Sea that Taiwan, Chi......
Taiwan's coast guard has spent the past two years quietly building a network of relationships across Southeast Asia, posting liaison officers in the Philippines, Indonesia and Thai......
Yoshihiko Yamada, an upper house lawmaker from Japan's Democratic Party for the People who has spent years studying ocean policy, told Taiwan's 2026 Taiwan Ocean International Foru......
A new study from the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, reported by the Japan Times, concludes that China has sharply expanded i......
The Associated Press recently posed a pointed question: why does the United States keep treating Taiwan's security and the South China Sea's security as bound together? Hunter Mars......
Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon's top policy official, on August 13 pushed a sweeping U.S. defense agenda for Southeast Asia while rejecting reports that Washington is expanding its r......
On July 24, Taiwan's National Security Council Secretary-General Joseph Wu publicly warned that China's People's Liberation Army had conducted simultaneous live-fire exercises acro......
On July 20, a Philippine vessel clashed with Chinese coast guard forces near Second Thomas Shoal — the same day the ASEAN foreign ministers' meeting opened in Manila, and US Secret......
When France's outgoing representative to Taiwan, Franck Paris (龍燁), took the podium at the Bastille Day reception in Taipei on July 14, 2026, the guest list around him told a story......
As 14 nations issued a joint statement on July 12 reaffirming the binding legal force of the landmark South China Sea arbitration ruling, Taiwan found itself in a familiar but unco......
At 12:01 p.m. on July 6, a Chinese ballistic missile submarine fired a single JL-series submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) that splashed down, as planned, in a designated ......
The Philippine government formally demanded Thursday that China's state-run China Daily remove an AI-generated video depicting Filipinos as monkeys, with both the foreign ministry ......
Fourteen countries, led by the Philippines and the United States, issued a joint statement July 12 marking a decade since an international tribunal ruled that China's sweeping marit......
A decade after an international tribunal delivered a landmark ruling against Beijing's sweeping South China Sea claims, China has not merely maintained its refusal to accept the ve......
Two Chinese government vessels entered the restricted waters surrounding Itu Aba Island on June 11 — the first deliberate intrusion since Taiwan formally designated those zones in ......
Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. has become the first sitting foreign defense minister sanctioned in the history of Chinese diplomacy. The move is more than an esc......
China sent no defense minister to Asia's most prominent annual security forum for the second consecutive year — yet managed to remain one of the most dominant presences at the even......
Japan's Self-Defense Forces joined Monday's annual U.S.-Philippines Balikatan exercises as full combat participants for the first time, deploying ground, maritime, and air units to......
Australian Envoy Warns China's Gray Zone Tactics Are Testing US–Japan DeterrenceChina's expanding use of so-called “gray zone” tactics—coercive actions short of open warfare—is st......
Japan is reportedly considering exporting its domestically developed "Type 03" medium-range surface-to-air missile system to the Philippines, according toJapanese media outlets suc......
