Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has pledged to bolster Manila’s attempts to push back against Beijing’s growing assertiveness ...

The Philippines was the first stop in U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's first trip to Asia. He is due to travel next to ...

THE DEPLOYMENT of the United States’ Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System (NMESIS) in the Philippines could improve military modernization efforts but may also provoke a military ...

Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro and his U.S. counterpart, Pete Hegseth, agreed on Friday in Manila to ...

In 2020, the Office of Naval Intelligence told Congress that Chinese naval ships are now “in many cases comparable” to their U.S. counterparts and that China was “quickly closing the gap” in design ...

Hegseth, who was visiting the Philippines, blamed the previous Biden administration for insufficient actions that emboldened aggressors like China over ... and Philippine coast guard and naval ...

China has refused to remove the buoy ... In December 2024, the Chinese navy and coast guard also held for the first time what Japan assesses to be a naval blockade exercise in regional waters ...

The Pentagon “needs hundreds of thousands” of these low-cost, attritable drones to deter China ... Coast when it soon leaves Naval Station San Diego. Both warships will be carrying a Coast ...