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Blinken calls China biggest 'test,' vows US strength
Mar 03, 2021 (AFP)
In his first major speech, Blinken promised that President Joe Biden's administration will prioritize diplomacy over military action and build cooperation with ...
U.S. to send additional $125M in military aid to Ukraine
Mar 01, 2021 (UPI)
The funding is part of the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, planned since 2020 and "conditional on Ukraine's progress on defense reforms, will provide eq...
India, China discuss further troop pullback from border
Feb 26, 2021 (AFP)
The nuclear-armed neighbours fought a border war in 1962 and last June their worst skirmish in decades left 20 Indian troops and four Chinese dead on the inhosp...
EU leaders debate push to boost defences
Feb 26, 2021 (AFP)
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg joined the video summit to talk up cooperation in the face of worries from some member states that the EU's push could u...
Sri Lanka seeks $2.2 bn from China as reserves shrink
Feb 25, 2021 (AFP)
Money and capital markets minister Nivard Cabraal said the government was hopeful of finalising a $1.5-billion swap facility with China's central bank. "Within ...
Biden's CIA pick stresses China threat
Feb 24, 2021 (AFP)
Burns was picked by President Joe Biden to replace retiring Central Intelligence Agency Director Gina Haspel and to help restore an air of independence after fo...
Biden, Trudeau renew strained US-Canadian ties
Feb 23, 2021 (AFP)
"The United States has no closer friend than Canada," Biden said, setting the tone for the get-together conducted by video link between the White House and Trud...
U.S., Japan start computer-based Resilient Shield 2021 exercise
Feb 22, 2021 (UPI)
The exercise is focused on U.S. naval tactics, techniques and procedures for ballistic missile defense, or BMD, and making sure that Japanese and U.S. forces ar...
India, China 'complete disengagement' of troops from part of border
Feb 21, 2021 (AFP)
The nuclear-armed neighbours fought a border war in 1962 and have long accused each other of seeking to cross their frontier -- which has never been properly ag...
China confirms four died; Shares dramatic video of mountain clash with India
Feb 20, 2021 (AFP)
China's defence ministry on Friday named four soldiers killed in the brawl, in the first confirmation of deaths by Beijing from an incident that also claimed th...
US warns China on force at sea, again rejects claims
Feb 19, 2021 (AFP)
The State Department voiced "concern" about new legislation enacted by China that authorizes its coast guard to use weapons against foreign ships that Beijing c...
Russian fighters intercept French jets over Black Sea
Feb 17, 2021 (AFP)
The ministry said in a statement that it dispatched two Su-27s to check out the two French Mirage-2000 fighter jets and a KC-135 refuelling plane, after they we...
U.S. Navy ship sails by China-claimed islands in South China Sea
Feb 17, 2021 (UPI)
The USS Russell guided-missile destroyer "asserted navigational rights" on Wednesday when it sailed by the Spratly Islands, the U.S. 7th Fleet said in a stateme...
Biden renews 'Quad' with allies despite Beijing pressure
Feb 17, 2021 (AFP)
The State Department said that Secretary of State Antony Blinken will speak virtually with the foreign ministers of the three nations, with the Covid-19 pandemi...
New Pentagon chief to reassure NATO allies
Feb 14, 2021 (AFP)
NATO defense ministers are meeting virtually Wednesday and Thursday, and the new Pentagon chief will send "a supportive message ... about how relevant NATO is,"...
India, China 'disengage' from part of border
Feb 11, 2021 (AFP)
India and China fought a border war in 1962 and have long accused each other of seeking to cross their frontier -- which has never been properly agreed -- in In...
Biden says phone call with Xi lasted two hours
Feb 11, 2021 (AFP)
"Last night, I was in the phone for two straight hours with Xi Jinping," Biden told reporters -- an unusually long interaction for a US president, with whom eve...
Biden presses Xi on HK, Xinjiang in first phone call
Feb 11, 2021 (AFP)
Setting the stage for what could extend the contentious relationship between the two superpowers, Biden offered Xi his "greetings and wellwishes" for the Chines...
Russia says Norway becoming 'parade-ground' for NATO
Feb 11, 2021 (AFP)
"We certainly can't talk of calm when tensions are rising on Russia's borders and a powerful parade-ground is forming for military operations against our countr...
U.S., Turkish navies conduct Black Sea exercise
Feb 10, 2021 (UPI)
The U.S. Sixth Fleet's Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Donald Cook and USS Porter, joined by a P-8A reconnaissance plane, joined Turkish friga...
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