TOKYO (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Thursday it was "unfortunate" his Chinese counterpart had declined to meet him at an upcoming security forum because they needed to ...

China rejected an invitation for its defense minister to meet with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on the sidelines of an annual defense summit in Singapore. Shedeur Sanders accounted for three ...

China snubbed a U.S. request for a meeting between U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Chinese counterpart Li Shangfu on the sidelines of a Singapore defence forum in June.

WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is traveling to Africa next week to shore up U.S. defense relationships with allies during a time of heightened bloodshed across the continent and ...

(Bloomberg) -- US and Chinese military officials met at a defense chiefs conference in Fiji this month, in a rare direct engagement between the armed forces of the two superpowers. Admiral John ...

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will embark on a trip this week where he'll visit various U.S. allies in Africa. His trip, starting Saturday, will include stops in Djibouti, Kenya, and Angola.

The House Wednesday passed an amendment proposed by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene that would slash the salary of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to $1. Republican lawmakers voted to cut Mr. Austin ...

SINGAPORE--Tensions between the United States and China are expected to loom over Asia's top security meeting this week, as China has declined a bilateral meeting between the superpowers' defense ...

Chinese Vice-President Han Zheng will meet US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on Monday, the US State Department confirmed. The ...

SINGAPORE -- The defence chiefs of China and the United States held face-to-face talks for the first time on Friday, with both sides standing firm on their opposing views over Taiwan's right to ...