‘We might be seen as spies’: US-China academic tie-ups slow amid mutual suspicion
Once quite commonplace, such academic exchanges have become rare.
Once quite commonplace, such academic exchanges have become rare.
Officials said there would be 17 foreign vessels involved in the drills, which will focus on non-military operations with key allies.
With increasing missile and nuclear threats from North Korea, South Korea and Japan have chosen to put the past behind them and strengthen their security cooperation with a…
The meeting comes amid China’s aggressive posturing in the Indo-Pacific region, an issue featured at the recent Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore.
A spokesperson for the office said they used the rhetoric of human rights “as a tool to echo some anti-China forces” in Hong Kong, and attempt to stir up problems.
The Chinese Defence Minister called on regional countries to "firmly reject" acts of some countries outside the South China Sea in the name of "freedom of navigation".
The agreement will allow the countries to promote a free and open Indo-Pacific amid China’s increasing assertiveness in the region.
The Chinese Defence Minister's comments came a day after United States and Chinese military vessels sailed close to each other in the flashpoint Taiwan Strait.
The weeklong exercise is the first major security engagement involving the three countries since President Marcos’ visits to Tokyo in February and Washington in May.
Finland on April 4 this year became NATO’s newest member upon depositing its instrument of accession to the North Atlantic Treaty with the US at NATO Headquarters in Brussels.