U.S. defense chief Pete Hegseth on Wednesday stressed the role of regional partners in the Pentagon's bid to counter an ...

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has warned of China posing an "imminent" threat to Taiwan, while urging Asian countries ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reassured allies in the Indo-Pacific that they will not be left alone to face ...

China's Foreign Ministry protested Hegseth's remarks, asserting that the US military presence in the Asia-Pacific region is ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth​ reassured allies in the Indo-Pacific on Saturday that they will not be left alone to ...

China accused Hegseth of vilifying the country with defamatory accusations and criticized him for promoting a Cold War ...

Trump and Xi are overcompensating for years of US-China engagement in which their predecessors made concessions, says RSIS’ ...

"Hegseth deliberately ignored the call for ... of China in 1971 when foreign countries switched their diplomatic relations. China views self-governed Taiwan and its 23 million residents as a ...

Some analysts were quick to play down the severity of Hegseth’s warnings about China ... “So the question is why take the risk when US-China relations are at a very delicate point at ...

Taiwan may be an island of just over 23 million people, but what happens there could ripple across the global economy.