The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Sunday slammed US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for a "Cold War mentality" in response to his remarks about China at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, which included him warning that the US is ready to "fight and win" a war over...
A retired US Navy admiral recently revealed that the US has 500 troops in Taiwan, a major challenge to Beijing's red lines related to the island. Ret. Adm. Mark Montgomery made the disclosure at a House hearing on May 15, where he was arguing that the US should send...
The US military fired munitions into the South China Sea this week using HIMARS rocket systems amid soaring tensions with China in the region. The live-fire drills occurred on the Philippine island province of Palawan as part of the annual US-Philippine Balikatan...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth distributed a memo in mid-March ordering the Pentagon to put its focus on preparing for a war with China, a nuclear-armed power, by "assuming risk" in Europe and other parts of the world, The Washington Post reported on Saturday. The...
The US has quietly released $870 million in funding for military aid to Taiwan after it was briefly paused during the Trump administration's freeze on foreign aid. Reuters first reported on February 21 that the US released the military aid for Taiwan as part of $5.3...
President Trump on Wednesday declined to say whether or not the US would defend Taiwan if China attacked the island. The president was asked if he would make it his policy to ensure "China never takes Taiwan by force" and replied, "I never comment on that. I don’t...
On Monday, China reacted strongly to the US State Department removing a line from its fact sheet on Taiwan that said the US "does not support Taiwan independence," saying the move damages US-China relations. "History cannot be tampered with, facts cannot be denied,...
President Trump told reporters on Thursday that he believes US military spending could eventually be cut in half and that he wants to pursue the idea as part of an agreement with Russia and China. He also said there was no reason to build new nuclear...
Two US Navy ships transited the Taiwan Strait this week, marking the first US naval passage through the sensitive waterway under the new Trump administration, which drew a rebuke from China. US Indo-Pacific Command said the guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson...
Two US Air Force B-1 bombers joined Philippine fighter jets in a flight over the South China Sea on Tuesday near the Scarborough Shoal, a disputed reef that's controlled by China. A spokesman for the Philippine Armed Forces said the provocative flight was the first...
