Photos: US rebuilding military presence in Philippines
The United States is rebuilding its military might in the Philippines more than 30 years after it closed its bases there.
The Army is trying to recover from its worst recruiting year in decades, and officials say those recruiting woes are the result of traditional hurdles like fear of death or injury, as well as he stress of Army life.
Across the political spectrum there seems to be a consensus that the free flow of trade, money and technology from the U.S. to China must be fundamentally overhauled.
Many in Washington now think China is increasingly adopting propaganda tactics associated with Russia — and there's growing concern the U.S. isn't doing enough to respond.
Chinese President Xi Jinping accused Washington this week of trying to isolate his country and hold back its development.
Sen. Josh Hawley referenced Woody Guthrie last week when he sponsored a bill to prevent people associated with the Chinese Communist Party from owning U.S. farmland and called it the “This Land is Our Land Act.” But the family of one of America’s most revered folk singers wasn’t exactly thrilled.
China's leaders are seething at U.S. efforts to cut off access to technology to make advanced computer chips. They appear to be struggling to figure out how to retaliate without hurting their own ambitions in telecoms, artificial intelligence and other industries.
The conflict unfolded on Risk board game-style tabletop maps and markers under a giant gold chandelier in a House committee room.
When two Philippine coast guard vessels set out to patrol the volatile South China Sea recently, they had to face more than China's growing territorial ambitions. The patrols are a constant battle against sun, sea, stress and gnawing isolation.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to China this weekend as part of the administration's push to repair deteriorating ties between Washington and Beijing, the State Department said Wednesday.
U.S. and Chinese officials say the United States and China have failed to overcome their most serious disagreements but were able to discuss them in a potentially constructive way and have agreed to continue talks.
After withdrawing from two huge U.S. military bases in the Philippines at the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, American forces are returning and building a new presence on Philippine bases under a 2014 defense pact to counter China's increasingly assertive actions.
