A police officer gestures at the photographer as security staff stand guard outside the Canadian embassy in Beijing, China on Dec. 20, 2018. Canada has joined major allies including the United States and Britain in identifying China as the country responsible for a state-sponsored hacking campaign to steal data from military service members, government agencies […]
Nearly seven decades after the signing of the Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and the Philippine government, the defense department will seek to review the Aug. 30, 1951 accord to solicit Washington’s position with regards the dispute in the South China Sea. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said the planned review of the MDT […]
Harvard scholar Graham Allison says China’s rising influence sets it at odds with the US’ notion of itself as a superpower and both need to take a step back Graham Allison, who said Beijing and Washington could fall into what he called the Thucydides Trap – where a rising power threatens to eclipse a rival […]
MANILA – The Philippines will continue to deploy troops to a Manila-claimed reef in the West Philippine Sea amid China’s threatening moves in the area. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana assured the public Thursday that the Philippine government would not hesitate to protest any aggression from China in the disputed waters. “We will still patrol and […]
WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – 21st December, 2018) US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Teodoro Locsin, Jr. in a meeting in Washington, DC spoke about what have been done to address the territorial dispute in the South China Sea, the Department of State said in a press release. […]
There is an intensifying and increasingly shrill debate as to whether the US and China are on the brink of a new kind of cold war. Those who say they’re not cite one major difference between their rivalry and that of the US and Soviet Union in the cold war: the US-China struggle has not […]
The South China Sea and Taiwan have made Council of Foreign Relations’ Centre for Preventative Action list of hotspots for potential armed conflict in 2019. While the issue of the South China Sea has been on the list before, it marks the first time that Taiwan has been included. North Korea and Iran remain on […]
Indonesia has opened a military base on the southern edge of the South China Sea, in territorial waters claimed by China and several other countries. The base was opened Dec. 18 on the remote island of Natuna Besar, part of the Natuna Islands—one of Indonesia’s northernmost areas, located between the Malay Peninsula and the island […]
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, left, and US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis meet at the Pentagon, September 18, 2018. THE Department of National Defense (DND) wants a review of the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty with the United States, saying that it is high time both sides looked into its provisions given the dispute in the South […]
In a disturbing trend, America’s greatest foes are moving to take power. It’s a global game of influence, intimidation and exploitation. Trump’s Terrible Year President Trump is in retreat. And Russia and China are seizing the opportunity. The US Syria pullout is part of a global shift in power — with Putin building a base […]