The Philippine and US militaries kicked off joint exercises involving a combined 5,000 troops on Monday, Manila said, days ...

The Philippine defense chief called China’s expansive claims in the South China Sea “the biggest fiction and lie” that no ...

The Philippine Defence Secretary criticizes China's territorial claims in the South China Sea, calling them the 'biggest ...

A Philippine official says U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is scheduled to visit the Philippines, the first stop in his first trip to the Indo-Pacific next week, for talks that will include ...

LONDON (AFP): UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy slammed "dangerous and destabilising" activity by Beijing in the disputed South China Sea on Monday, following a weekend visit to the Philippines.

Philippines Foreign Secretary Enrique Manalo rejected Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's claim that the country's maritime actions are influenced by external forces, calling it a 'distortion' of ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

MANILA - China should recognise that the Philippines is an independent and sovereign state whose actions and decisions are driven entirely by national interest and not at the direction of other ...

Philippines — The Philippines has called out China's foreign minister for using "creative analogy" and wordplay to distract from the core issue in the South China Sea dispute — Beijing's ...

At a press conference on March 7, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said the Philippines' actions in the South China Sea were not independent but part of a "screenplay written by external forces ...

“The Philippines disagrees with the recent remarks of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi characterizing the developments and incidents in the South China Sea as mere theatre staged under the ...