Foreign Military Cooperation
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Oceania
Papua New Guinea hosts Indo-Pacific health security alliance event
FORUM Staff Papua New Guinea (PNG) hosted a key Indo-Pacific health security alliance (IPhsa) event with co-chairs the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and the United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) in Port Moresby in early May 2025. The multilateral event celebrated PNG’s 50 years of independence and brought together 150 representatives from more than 15 Allied and Partner nations to enhance…
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Free and Open Indo-Pacific/FOIP
Philippines, Vietnam expanding cooperation in South China Sea
The Associated Press The Philippines and Vietnam signed agreements in late January 2024 to prevent incidents in the South China Sea and broaden cooperation between their coast guards in a growing alliance that will likely be frowned upon by the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Beijing claims almost all of the strategic waterway in defiance of a 2016 international tribunal ruling that…
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Across The Region
2 Plus 2 Bolsters Shared Security
The defense ministers of Japan and the Philippines agreed in April 2022 to bolster security cooperation and expand joint drills between their forces as they shared concerns about the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) increasingly assertive military actions in the region. Then-Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi and then-Philippine National Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana also shared concern about Russia’s invasion of…
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