The guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold joined its Australian and British counterparts for a two-day exercise in the South ...

which claims the entire South China Sea and accuses Manila of colluding with others to destabilize the region. The U.S. 7th Fleet based in Japan said forces from Australia, Japan, the Philippines, and ...

“The Philippines has organized so-called ‘joint patrols’ to attract countries outside the region to create instability in the South China Sea, endorse its illegal claims in the South China ...

Any military activities that attempt to disrupt the South China Sea are well under control ... barbs over the transit of a Chinese destroyer fleet in the Basilan Strait, which separates ...