The U.S. Navy plans to build two facilities in the Philippines for repairing and maintaining Philippine military boats. The U ...

The country has been gradually expanding military cooperation with the U.S., Japan, and Beijing-claimed Taiwan.

Manila’s significant shift could pave the way for the Philippines, an American treaty ally, to play a bigger role in regional ...

The maintenance facilities in Palawan are in a strategically important location and one analyst said they may help Manila ...

The move comes as Chinese and Philippine vessels have clashed in increasingly hostile interactions in the region.

The series of Association of Southeast Asian Nations foreign ministers' meetings that concluded in Kuala Lumpur last week ...

The Philippines and the United States have conducted maritime drills in South China Sea waters claimed by Manila just days before President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is due to visit Washington.

The Philippines discreetly bolsters defense ties with Taiwan due to Chinese aggression in the South China Sea. Under ...

The recent agreement between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and China on a Single Draft Code of Conduct (COC) Negotiating Text marks a significant milestone in a complex and ...

The U.S. Navy is aggressively expanding its presence in the Philippines by building new repair facilities for smaller vessels near the highly contested Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea. This ...

The U.S. Pacific Fleet commander says China has failed to intimidate rival claimant states into surrendering their sovereign interests in the South China Sea despite its intensifying “bullying tactics ...

Beijing claims almost the entirety of the crucial waterway despite an international ruling its assertion has no merit.