The US Marine Corps on Thursday formally opened a new military base in the US territory of Guam as part of Washington's military buildup in the Asia Pacific that is aimed at China. The base is still under construction but will eventually house 5,000 US Marines, likely...
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is planning to visit Taiwan later this year, and the Pentagon is preparing for his trip, Punchbowl News reported on Monday. The report said that the trip would likely take place in the spring, and the Biden administration is looking...
The US has expanded its training of the Taiwanese military to include a program involving the US National Guard, Nikkei Asia reported on Thursday. A source told Nikkei that the training began sometime before spring 2022. In May 2022, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen...
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen met with China's top economic official, Vice Premier Liu He, in Switzerland on Wednesday as Washington and Beijing continue to maintain high-level contacts. In a readout of the meeting, the Treasury Department said that both sides...
China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) held live-fire naval exercises in the South China Sea a day after the US Navy announced a US aircraft carrier strike group was operating in the disputed waters. The PLA said the "live-fire confrontation drill" was carried out on...
A Chinese official said this week that the rising number of Chinese flights in areas around Taiwan is a direct response to "collusion" between the US and Taiwan, making clear Beijing's motives for its stepped-up military activity. Ma Xiaoguang, a spokesman for China’s...
Taiwan's Defense Ministry revealed on Wednesday that it has sent some of its military officers to a NATO war college in Italy, acknowledging cooperation with the Western military alliance that is sure to anger China. One Taiwanese air force officer, Lt. Col. Wu...
China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) said it launched more military exercises around Taiwan on Sunday to counter the "collusion" between Taiwan and "external forces" as US and other Western support for Taipei continues to increase. "The exercise focused on land...
The US and Japanese militaries are increasing cooperation to prepare for a possible war with China over Taiwan or other areas in the Asia Pacific, the top US Marine Corps general in Japan told Financial Times. Lt. Gen. James Bierman, commander of the Third Marine...
A US Navy guided-missile destroyer sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Thursday in the first US transit of the sensitive waterway of 2023. The US Navy's Seventh Fleet said the USS Chung-Hoon made the passage. Entering the new year, tensions between the US and China...
