Us Japan Defence Talks

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US Defence Secretary Lloyd J Austin met on Friday after the top Biden administration official arrived in India on a three-day visit. India is the third stop for Mr Austin during his three-nation hop - he went to Japan and South Korea - and the first overseas visit by the new US Defence Secretary after President Joe ...

US President Donald Trump on Saturday said he had told Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that a decades-old security treaty between their countries must be changed, reiterating his criticism of the pact as unfair.

India said today that its decision to purchase the advanced S-400 missile defence system from Russia did not figure during the talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump, though they discussed ways to step up the bilateral military cooperation.

US President Donald Trump today told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that "we will certainly work together on trade", a day after upping the rhetoric on an issue that has emerged as a major source of friction between the two countries. "We have become great friends and our countries have never been closer," President Trump said as the two leaders met ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi became the first Indian Prime Minister since Indira Gandhi to visit Manila, the capital of Philippines, in 36 years. During his trip, he will attend a summit of ASEAN or the Association of South-East Asian Nations, a 10-nation grouping besides India, that's expected to boost trade and defence cooperation. Before a gala...

In the backdrop of China's growing assertiveness, India, the US, Japan and Australia have got together to revive an alliance called the Quadrilateral, and talks were held today in Manila on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit. The grouping is expected to boost free trade and defence cooperation across part of South China Sea and Indian Ocean.

The threat from North Korea has grown to a "critical and imminent level" and the United States, Japan and South Korea must address the matter, Japanese Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera told his U.S. and South Korean counterparts in talks on Monday.

South Korea and the United States were finishing annual war games on the Korean peninsula on Thursday amid high tension over North Korea's weapons programmes and a disagreement between U.S. President Donald Trump and his defence secretary on how to respond.

US military bases remain essential to Japan's security, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in an interview Wednesday, as he brushed off comments by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that Tokyo should be left to defend itself.

The United States and Japan are pushing to get concerns about the South China Sea included in a statement to be issued after regional defence talks in Malaysia despite Chinese objections to any mention of the disputed waterway, officials said.

Thousands of demonstrators formed a human chain around Japan's parliament in Tokyo on Sunday, protesting the planned construction of a new US airbase on the southern island of Okinawa.

New guidelines governing the US Secretary of Defense will allow the two militaries to "cooperate seamlessly", American Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said today in Tokyo following a meeting with his Japanese counterpart.

The United States on Friday stressed its commitment to the defence of Japan and stability in the Asia-Pacific region against a backdrop of increasingly assertive territorial claims by China.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US Defence Secretary Lloyd J Austin met on Friday after the top Biden administration official arrived in India on a three-day visit. India is the third stop for Mr Austin during his three-nation hop - he went to Japan and South Korea - and the first overseas visit by the new US Defence Secretary after President Joe ...

US President Donald Trump on Saturday said he had told Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that a decades-old security treaty between their countries must be changed, reiterating his criticism of the pact as unfair.

India said today that its decision to purchase the advanced S-400 missile defence system from Russia did not figure during the talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump, though they discussed ways to step up the bilateral military cooperation.

US President Donald Trump today told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that "we will certainly work together on trade", a day after upping the rhetoric on an issue that has emerged as a major source of friction between the two countries. "We have become great friends and our countries have never been closer," President Trump said as the two leaders met ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi became the first Indian Prime Minister since Indira Gandhi to visit Manila, the capital of Philippines, in 36 years. During his trip, he will attend a summit of ASEAN or the Association of South-East Asian Nations, a 10-nation grouping besides India, that's expected to boost trade and defence cooperation. Before a gala...

In the backdrop of China's growing assertiveness, India, the US, Japan and Australia have got together to revive an alliance called the Quadrilateral, and talks were held today in Manila on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit. The grouping is expected to boost free trade and defence cooperation across part of South China Sea and Indian Ocean.

The threat from North Korea has grown to a "critical and imminent level" and the United States, Japan and South Korea must address the matter, Japanese Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera told his U.S. and South Korean counterparts in talks on Monday.

South Korea and the United States were finishing annual war games on the Korean peninsula on Thursday amid high tension over North Korea's weapons programmes and a disagreement between U.S. President Donald Trump and his defence secretary on how to respond.

US military bases remain essential to Japan's security, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in an interview Wednesday, as he brushed off comments by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that Tokyo should be left to defend itself.

The United States and Japan are pushing to get concerns about the South China Sea included in a statement to be issued after regional defence talks in Malaysia despite Chinese objections to any mention of the disputed waterway, officials said.

Thousands of demonstrators formed a human chain around Japan's parliament in Tokyo on Sunday, protesting the planned construction of a new US airbase on the southern island of Okinawa.

New guidelines governing the US Secretary of Defense will allow the two militaries to "cooperate seamlessly", American Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said today in Tokyo following a meeting with his Japanese counterpart.

The United States on Friday stressed its commitment to the defence of Japan and stability in the Asia-Pacific region against a backdrop of increasingly assertive territorial claims by China.