U.S. defense chief to meet Chinese counterpart during Singapore defense forum
Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan will meet China's defense minister at an Asia defense forum in Singapore, a senior U.S. defense official said Friday, at a time of strained relations between Beijing and Washington over trade and security. Tensions between China and the United ...
U.S. Navy sends ships through Taiwan Strait for eighth time in nine months
The U.S. Navy has again sent ships through the Taiwan Strait, making transits of the waterway increasingly regular amid growing economic and military acrimony between the United States and China. The U.S. Navy has ramped up its operations in the strait over the past year, ...
Ex-Philippine judge, a Xi critic, says she was held at Hong Kong airport and ordered to leave
A former Philippine Supreme Court justice who accused Chinese President Xi Jinping of crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court said she was barred for hours Tuesday from entering Hong Kong. Conchita Carpio-Morales said she was stopped by immigration authorities and was held in ...
Images show Chinese ships are back in South China Sea to harvest endangered clams and wreck coral
China's "most destructive" clam fishing boats have returned to the disputed South China Sea in force over the last six months to harvest endangered giant clams, destroying vast swaths of coral reef, a U.S. think thank said in a study released Monday. Citing satellite imagery ...
Chinese defense chief close to Xi to attend key Asia security forum next month
China's Defense Minister will deliver a "highly anticipated" speech at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue next month — the first time in eight years that Beijing has sent such a high-level official to the annual security gathering, which will include a speech by the acting ...
Japan's MSDF kicks off second quadrilateral naval exercise in less than two weeks
The Maritime Self-Defense Force has kicked off its second quadrilateral naval exercise in less than two weeks, with warships — including Japan's largest flat-topped helicopter carrier Izumo — joining vessels from the Australian, French and U.S. navies in waters west of the Indonesian island ...
U.S. sends warship near South China Sea flash point as Beijing and Washington spar over trade
The U.S. Navy has sailed a warship near the disputed Scarborough Shoal, a strategic flash point in the South China Sea claimed by China, in a move expected to stoke anger in Beijing as the world's two biggest economies remain embroiled in a trade ...
The voice on the radio in the middle of the South China Sea follows a familiar script for Capt. Eric Anduze, who helms the USS Blue Ridge. It's China on the phone. "They'll contact us and they'll go — 'U.S. government vessel, this is Chinese ...
Trump-China trade fight unfolds as deeper conflict takes shape
As the U.S.-China trade fight deepens, the two superpowers — one incumbent and one rising — are sizing each other up and deciding whether they can coexist. China and the U.S. ended talks in Washington on Friday with no deal after President Donald Trump raised ...
Naval vessels from Japan, the U.S., India and the Philippines have sailed together through the disputed South China Sea in a nearly weeklong multilateral drill amid tensions with China over the strategic waterway. The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Izumo — Japan's largest flat-topped helicopter carrier — ...
China's furtive fleet of nuclear missile-laden submarines tests the Pentagon
Recent visitors to the bay surrounding a submarine base on the southern coast of China's Hainan Island describe a curious nocturnal phenomenon. Powerful spotlights are sometimes trained directly on the ocean frontages of neighboring hotels at night, making visibility out to sea virtually impossible. ...
A Chinese military spokesman has said the People's Liberation Army will remain "on high alert and take all necessary measures" to protect what it claims is its "national sovereignty" after the U.S. Navy sent two warships near two Chinese-held man-made islands in the disputed ...
