The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Tuesday underscored that no official from the Marcos administration entered into any agreement with the Chinese government regarding Ayungin Shoal.
‘They shouldn’t have been at any risk’, Anthony Albanese said of Australian defence personnel who he said were operating in international airspace enforcing UN sanctions on North Korea.
Germany sent two warships to the Indo-Pacific region in a bid to strengthen its military presence in the region amid rising tensions between China and Taiwan and over the South China Sea.
In this week’s issue of the Global Impact newsletter, we look at how Asian nations have been making moves with an eye on the ever evolving relationship between China and the United States.
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US military and State Department officials have sounded an alarm over China’s intent to develop floating nuclear power plants that could be deployed in the South China Sea.
U.S. and Philippine armed forces fired missiles and artillery to thwart a simulated invasion in the Philippines' northern waters facing Taiwan on Monday, in a show of military force and strengthening ties as regional tensions rise. The exercises have irked China, which has warned of destabilisation when countries outside the region "flex muscles and stoke confrontation".
Nato members have vested interests in the region, individually and collectively, but an alliance expansion would raise complicated questions over collective defence and overreach