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US ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel said the move is not meant ‘for just one contingency,’ but ‘it’s built around the security in the Indo-Pacific’.

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Two U.S. Navy officers in San Diego have been promoted to rear admiral, according to the Department of Defense.

WASHINGTON (Kyodo) -- A bipartisan group of influential U.S. policy experts on Thursday unveiled a set of proposals to build a

A bipartisan group of influential U.S. policy experts unveil a set of proposals for their country and Japan to build a more integrated partnership in the face of a challenging security environment, with one key pillar being a transformation of the decades-old alliance's command-and-control architecture.

Adm. Stephen Koehler, a naval aviator and former commander of 3rd Fleet, assumed command of U.S. Pacific Fleet during a ceremony Thursday in Hawaii. The fleet consists of about 200 ships, 1,500 aircraft and 150,000 uniformed and civilian personnel.

On Thursday, the U.S. Pacific Fleet held a change of command ceremony at Pearl Harbor’s Kilo Pier as Adm. Samuel Paparo handed command to Adm. Steve Koehler.

WASHINGTON: The United States and China held talks this week on safety in interactions between their armed forces...

U.S. military officials with Indo-Pacific Command, Pacific Fleet and Pacific Air Forces met with Chinese military counterparts this week in the first large gathering between officers since December 2021. The meeting, called the Military Maritime Consultative Agreement Working Group (MMCA), also came the same week that President Biden called Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the first…

The United States seeks to modernize the command structure of its decades-old security alliance with Japan to deal with a "much more assertive China" including toward Taiwan, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel says as the two countries look to discuss the issue at an upcoming summit in Washington.