Lloyd Austin

Taiwan, Ukraine, and growing U.S.-China competition are all expected to figure during the three-day conference.

For months, Austin has failed to get Gen. Xu Qiliang, deputy chairman of the Party's Central Military Commission, on the phone. Instead, he spoke to lower-ranked Defense Minister Gen. Wei Fenghe.

The Pentagon announced on Tuesday that it decided to station an Apache attack helicopter squadron and artillery division headquarters permanently in South Korea.

The visit will include stops in Vietnam and Singapore, which recently hosted U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris.

The visit highlighted both the overlaps and the misalignments between the U.S. and Southeast Asian governments.

While we need to cast a more critical eye on what Europe can actually bring to the Indo-Pacific, it is too early to dismiss Europe’s military engagement in the region.

Military commanders have said that additional forces will flow in temporarily to help with security and logistics for the drawdown.

One way of looking at the 2+2 meeting is that a selection of items for future consideration was put on the table. What becomes of these items going forward is now the critical question.

The vice president of the Asia Society Policy Institute (and former assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs) on what we can glean from the administration's recent Asia outreach.

While the two sides were careful to avoid open disagreement, there are clear areas of tensions, from approaches to China and North Korea to alliance issues involving Japan.

Austin is set to land in India on Friday, for a visit that aims to deepen defense cooperation between the United States and India.

Kim Yo Jong issued a warning statement ahead of a U.S.-South Korea 2+2, in Pyongyang’s first direct comment to the Biden administration.