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China to raise defence spending by 7.5%, lower than 2018
Mar 05, 2019 (AFP)
Beijing has strived to provide its two million-strong People's Liberation Army (PLA) with state-of-the-art hardware, spending heavily on stealth warplanes, airc...
NATO chief wants to beef up Ukraine defenses against Russia threat
Mar 05, 2019 (AFP)
The United States has already sold Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine in the past year, but there are "other systems, snipers systems, ammunition" that Washi...
Philippine defence chief calls for US pact review
Mar 05, 2019 (AFP)
Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana made the comments four days after US Secretary Mike Pompeo said Washington would intervene in case of an armed attack on Phil...
US vows Philippines defence if attacked in China-claimed sea
Mar 01, 2019 (AFP)
Speaking in Manila after meeting with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, Pompeo said Beijing's actions in waters also claimed by the Southeast Asian nation a...
Poland says will spend 43 bn euros on military upgrade
Feb 28, 2019 (AFP)
The new equipment will be deployed mainly in eastern Poland -- NATO's eastern flank -- amid concern following Moscow's 2014 annexation of Crimea and the collaps...
Joint military exercise in Qatar with U.S., regional partners a success
Feb 26, 2019 (UPI)
Joint Air Defense Exercise 19-01, or JADEX, was a scheduled, three-day training event at the Al Udied Air Base in Qatar to sharpen CENTCOM's air defense readine...
Okinawa 'no' vote won't delay US base move: Japan PM
Feb 25, 2019 (AFP)
"It has been 20 years since Japan and the US agreed" to relocate the Futenma base, Abe said. "We cannot delay this any further." His comments came after voters ...
Turkey seeks 110 more arrests over Gulen ties
Feb 25, 2019 (AFP)
Tens of thousands of people have been held over alleged ties to US-based Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen since the failed coup while over 140,000 public sector ...
Japan's Okinawa votes on controversial US base move
Feb 24, 2019 (AFP)
The vote is seen as highly symbolic but is also non-binding, raising questions about what effect it will have, even if opponents of the move, including Okinawa ...
Japan's Okinawa to vote on controversial US base move
Feb 23, 2019 (AFP)
The vote is seen as highly symbolic but is also non-binding, raising questions about what effect it will have, even if opponents of the move, including Okinawa ...
Pompeo to visit Philippines amid China flirtationw/
Feb 22, 2019 (AFP)
Pompeo will travel to Manila on February 28 and March 1 for talks with President Rodrigo Duterte, State Department spokesman Robert Palladino said. The top US d...
US, Japan, Australia start Cope North 2019 at Guam air base
Feb 21, 2019 (UPI)
Cope North 2019, which started Monday and is scheduled to run through March 8, involves the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, Japan Air Self-Defense...
US, Britain conduct security drills, training in South China Sea
Feb 21, 2019 (UPI)
Participating in the exercise Monday were Royal Marine commandos, Royal Navy sailors and Guadalupe crew members, according to a U.S. Navy news release Wednesday...
Former New Zealand PM denies writing glowing China op-ed
Feb 20, 2019 (AFP)
The article, "We need to learn to listen to China", was published on Monday under Shipley's byline in the Communist party's People's Daily and heaped praise on ...
U.S. destroyer Cook, NATO ships enter Black Sea ahead of exercise
Feb 19, 2019 (UPI)
The U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer departed Batumi, Georgia, where it conducted an exercise with two of the nation's coast guard ships, according to the U.S...
Pelosi pledges long-term US backing of NATO, EU
Feb 19, 2019 (AFP)
In an implicit message the Republican president is not omnipotent, the most powerful Democrat said she and fellow visiting congressmen were asserting the role o...
Gibraltar accuses Spanish warship of 'childish behaviour' in its waters
Feb 18, 2019 (AFP)
It is the latest in a long string of diplomatic skirmishes over the tiny Mediterranean peninsula which has been governed by Britain since 1713 but is claimed by...
US Pentagon chief said he felt 'welcomed' on European tour
Feb 17, 2019 (AFP)
"My takeaway is that I felt very welcomed and it was a very inclusive environment," Shanahan said, speaking aboard the airplane bringing him home from a three-d...
Europeans $100 billion short of NATO spending pledge: study
Feb 15, 2019 (AFP)
The failure of many European allies to get even close to the NATO target of spending two percent of their national output on defence by 2024 has infuriated Trum...
Israel in trade balancing act between US and China
Feb 14, 2019 (AFP)
Washington has raised concerns over China's increased role in infrastructure and sensitive sectors such as technology of its close ally Israel, with which it sh...
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