A recent meeting between Marco Rubio and Enrique Manalo may offer hope for a new strategy aimed at de-escalation ...

“[This] risks a direct US-China naval clash that can easily spiral out of control,” said the report titled “Defending Without Provoking: The United States and the Philippines in the South ...

China has driven off two Philippine government ships that tried ... emphasised that the two sides had agreed to "sustain the de-escalation of tensions" at a ministerial meeting last week.

MANILA, Philippines — The China Coast ... while striving to avoid provocation and escalation. Meanwhile, the PCG has denounced China for imposing a “new order” in maritime areas outside ...

China chose swift retaliation for trade measures in the first Trump administration, but that led to an upward spiral of trade ... agreed to stop the escalation in January 2020, but left in place ...

have raised questions over the prospect of drawing U.S. forces into a conflict with China. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has stressed that he does not seek escalation, but he has said ...

Politico reported last week that some EU countries might seize Russia's“shadow fleet” in the Baltic Sea on the pretext of complying with internation ...

The risk of conflict in the South China Sea is significant. China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, and the Philippines have ... leading to further military escalation and precipitating a ...

If economics was the only dimension of national existence and if China and Sri Lanka were the only countries ... AKD’s contribution is a spiral of escalating external entanglement and entrenchment.

Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada on Monday, January 27 slammed China’s use of a deafening sonic device against the Philippine Coast Guard ... provocation and represents a ...