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China's military said it had conducted a patrol in the South China Sea on Friday, the day U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ...

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

ABOARD BRP JOSE RIZAL, South China Sea — The United States, Japan and the Philippines on Friday staged joint naval drills to ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine defense chief on Monday called China's expansive claims in the South China Sea “the biggest fiction and lie” that no Southeast Asian country would accept and said ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

frigate JS Noshiro manuever during the Philippines United States Japan Multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activity off a disputed South China Sea shoal on Friday, March 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron ...

The Philippines is positioning itself as an emerging secondary hub in China-based firms’ global supply chains to avoid the brunt of US tariffs, but analysts are split on whether its growing ...