China will not send its defense minister to this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue, shunning a chance for a high-level meeting with US and Asian counterparts as tensions simmer with Washington. China ...

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division load a CH-47 Chinook helicopter during the air assault operations portion ...

U.S. Marines and Sailors with Marine Wing Support Squadron (MWSS) 171, Marine Aircraft Group 12, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, move into position for a patrol as a part of training at Dagmar North Live ...

On 12 May 2025, China released a new defence white paper: ‘China’s National Security in the New Era’. Adopting a ‘holistic’ approach to security, considering the latest global developments while also ...

As the U.S. retrenches globally, Asian nations are accelerating domestic defense spending, creating a multi-decade rearmament cycle driven by geography and strategic necessity, not politics. Regional ...

SYDNEY, May 30 (Reuters) - U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked security ally Australia to increase defence spending in a meeting with Defence Minister Richard Marles on Friday in Singapore.

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SINGAPORE, May 29 (Reuters) - U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth will try to convince Asian defence leaders this weekend that the United States is a more trusted partner for the region than China, ...