The drill will underscore their commitment to the rule of law in the region after recent Chinese aggression, Filipino security officials said.
Mara Karlin emphasized the importance of crisis hot lines with China while highlighting the ongoing U.S. role in the Middle East.
Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken are in Australia for talks aimed at countering Beijing’s growing influence in the Indo-Pacific region.
Carlos Del Toro said Friday that the major multination military training exercise launched in Australia sends a message to China.
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong also says her country is considering whether to take part in joint patrols in the disputed South China Sea.
Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. made the rounds in Washington seeking to deepen the alliance amid concerns over Chinese aggression.
The open-sourced report by CSIS’s Aerospace Security Project looked at the space activities of a variety of adversaries and allies.
For the first time, the review addresses the need to harden Australia’s air bases and secure fuel supplies against attack from Australia’s north.
Explorers found a sunken Japanese ship that was transporting Allied prisoners of war when it was torpedoed off the coast of the Philippines in 1942.
The US Army is preparing to conduct one of the largest logistics exercises in recent history at Talisman Sabre in Australia.
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