Japan, a United States ally in the Indo-Pacific region ... a strategic waterway that links the East China Sea with the South China Sea, where China has territorial disputes with its neighboring ...

Two Mobile Cooperation Teams were sent to the Marshall Islands and Micronesia in January to boost Japanese coastguard ...

Chinese military aircraft have also approached Philippine patrol planes at alarmingly close distance to drive them away from the Scarborough Shoal, a hotly disputed fishing atoll in the disputed ...

alternative southbound options to approach the western Pacific instead of the Bashi Channel, a heavily monitored waterway seen as a strategic chokepoint. Northbound options include transiting ...

China claims almost all of the strategic waterway ... Indo-Pacific Command, and Australia's chief of Joint Operations. Spokespersons of the Indian defence ministry and the embassies of South ...

The canal is about 48 miles long. It functions as a waterway between North and South America. The canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Before the canal, ships had to sail 13,000 miles ...