The country has been gradually expanding military cooperation with the U.S., Japan, and Beijing-claimed Taiwan.

Manila’s significant shift could pave the way for the Philippines, an American treaty ally, to play a bigger role in regional ...

The Philippines discreetly bolsters defense ties with Taiwan due to Chinese aggression in the South China Sea. Under ...

China on Monday accused Japan of disrupting the South China Sea by supplying naval ships to the Philippines.

The United States hit China’s continued defiance of the 2016 arbitral ruling that invalidated Beijing’s unlawful and ...

The U.S. Pacific Fleet commander says China has failed to intimidate rival claimant states into surrendering their sovereign interests in the South China Sea despite its intensifying “bullying tactics ...

China has sanctioned a former Filipino lawmaker, Francis Tolentino, who sponsored legislation that marks out the Philippines’ territorial claims in the disputed South China Sea ...

The U.S. plans to fund and build a facility capable of hosting watercraft and assault boats on the western coast of Palawan ...

Francis “Tol” Tolentino helped author two recent pieces of legislation asserting Manila’s claims in the disputed waterway.

The so-called South China Sea arbitration of 2016, initiated unilaterally by the Philippines, has triggered "a myriad of ...

China has sanctioned a former Filipino lawmaker, Francis Tolentino, who sponsored legislation that marks out the Philippines’ ...

MANILA: Despite rising tension in the major regional flashpoint of the South China Sea, the Philippines' top defence official ...