China is rapidly becoming more aggressive in its rhetoric and actions across Asia, Adm. John Aquilino, the outgoing head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, said Tuesday in Tokyo.

Taiwan’s President-elect Lai Ching-te says an $8 billion defense package approved by the U.S. House over the weekend will “strengthen the deterrence against authoritarianism in the West Pacific ally chain,” in a reference to key rival China.

Members of the Hawaii-based 25th Infantry Division and 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment will helicopter onto Philippine islands during a three-week annual exercise that kicked off this week.

Two Malaysian military helicopters collided and crashed during a training session on Tuesday, killing all 10 people on board, the navy said.

Another contingent of F-22 Raptors have landed on Okinawa as part of an Air Force plan to replace retired F-15 Eagles with frequent rotations of temporary replacement fighters.

Russia’s “complete embrace” of North Korea could increase Kim Jong Un’s appetite for risk when it comes to threatening South Korea and exporting weapons abroad, as well as helping Pyongyang ignore Washington’s call to return to nuclear talks, a senior Biden administration official said.

North Korea’s launch of several short-range ballistic missiles Monday was an exercise in counterattacking the United States and South Korea with nuclear warheads, according to the North’s state media.

A cluster of earthquakes struck the island republic of Taiwan, the strongest having a magnitude of 6.1, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

One of China’s top military leaders took a harsh line on regional territorial disputes, telling an international naval gathering in northeastern China on Monday that the country would strike back with force if its interests came under threat.

F-4s fired air-to-ground AGM-142 missiles and dropped 30 500-pound MK-82 free-fall bombs toward simulated targets in recent weeks, the South Korean air force said.

North Korea fired several short-range ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan on Monday afternoon, the South’s military told reporters soon after the launch.

U.S. and Philippine troops will sail beyond the Southeast Asian nation’s territorial waters for the first time since the joint annual drills started three decades ago, risking further maritime tensions with Beijing.

An initial analysis of flight data recorders recovered from the crash of two Japanese navy helicopters showed no sign of mechanical problems, Japan’s defense minister said, indicating likely human error. One of the eight crew members died and a search is continuing for the seven others.

A race car veered off the track during a competition in Sri Lanka on Sunday and rammed into a crowd of spectators and race officials, killing seven people and injuring 20 others, officials said.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is visiting amid foreign concerns about two big Chinese-funded projects in Cambodia — a planned canal and a naval base — that critics allege could aid Beijing’s strategic military interests in Southeast Asia.

The two SH-60K choppers from the Maritime Self-Defense Force were carrying four crew each and lost contact late Saturday near Torishima island, about 370 miles south of Tokyo, Defense Minister Minoru Kihara told reporters.

Members of the Red Hill Community Representation Initiative are expressing frustration with federal officials who declined to attend a scheduled meeting for a second time.

Officials in Thailand say about 1,300 people have fled from eastern Myanmar into Thailand as fresh fighting erupted at a border town that has recently been captured by ethnic guerillas.

Chief Petty Officer Bryce Pedicini, a fire controlman who had been assigned to the USS Higgins, was found guilty of attempted espionage, failure to obey a lawful order and attempted violation of a lawful general order.