China blasted U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth‘s speech at a defense forum in Singapore over the weekend, accusing him of ...

My job is to create and maintain decision space for President Trump, not to purport to make decisions on his behalf.” ...

At the Shangri-La Dialogue, Hegseth demanded that Asian countries massively increase their military spending to 5 percent of ...

Australia is adamant it will decide its defence spending despite pressure from the US for its Indo-Pacific allies to pour ...

Trade frictions between Washington and Beijing have flared up after a hiatus following a meeting between U.S. Treasury ...

Shadow Finance Minister James Paterson says Australia should increase defence spending as it is in the national interest and not because “American friends” asked Australia to.

China’s foreign ministry has protested to the United States after what it called “vilifying” remarks made by Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth while accusing the US of deliberately ignoring calls for ...

After US military allies in Europe were torched by Vice President JD Vance in March over military spending, free speech and ...

The US Defence Secretary is urging Australia to pump billions more into military budgets "as soon as possible".

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has asked Australia to dramatically raise its military spending to 3.5% of gross ...