Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III underscored the critical role that the deepening defense ties between the U.S., ...

Representatives from the US, China, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea met their Association of Southeast Asian Nations ...

Southeast Asian defense chiefs are meeting with China, the United States and other partner nations in Laos for security talks ...

A meeting with US defense secretary Lloyd Austin was turned down by his Chinese counterpart during a high-level gathering of ...

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a press conference on October 30 in Arlington, Virginia. China rejected a meeting with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin during a conference in ...

Marles spoke after an annual meeting with his U.S. and Japanese counterparts—Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani—that produced a slew of other ...

VIENTIANE, Laos — U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin expressed regret Wednesday that his Chinese counterpart chose not to hold talks with him during meetings of Southeast Asian defense ...

VIENTIANE, Laos — Southeast Asian defense chiefs met Thursday with their counterparts from ... The closed-door talks put U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chinese Defense Minister ...

China rejected a meeting with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin during a conference in southeast Asia this week, marking the latest turn in a tumultuous relationship between the two countries ...

Southeast Asian defense chiefs are meeting with China ... The closed-door talks put U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun in the same room, a day after ...