US anti-ship missile system launchers and the Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System, NMESIS, were deployed to Luzon, the Philippines’ largest island, for the exercise running ...

Analysts said China would be wary of the strategic implications of such a deal and the risks of a stronger US-Japan-Philippines security alignment creating a confrontational bloc near its borders.

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru is expected to visit Vietnam and the Philippines next week to exchange views with the countries' leaders on the US's new tariffs. Arrangements are being made ...