CLARK, Philippines —France renewed a commitment to help defend freedom of navigation and overflight in the Asia-Pacific on Sunday and said that its supersonic fighter jets — a pair of which landed for the first time in the Philippines — and advanced mili...
“Let us together become the crucial force in defending freedom, democracy in the first island chain,” he said, referring to a string of islands off the Asian continent that includes Japan, Taiwan and part of the Philippines. The legislature passed a resolution welcoming Lai and extending appre...
BEIJING, July 12 (Xinhua) -- The South China Sea arbitration, unilaterally initiated by thePhilippines, is a political farce made under the pretext of law, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Tuesday. Wang made the remarks after an Arbitral Tribunal handling the South China Sea arbitration cas...
as well as to negate any potential benefits that China could reap from its action. For instance, if China deploys surface to air missiles on its features in the Spratlys, the United States should help Vietnam and the Philippines acquire assets specifically designed to counteract those Chinese ...