Recent senate hearings to confirm Donald Trump’s cabinet picks brought into sharp contrast the candidate for US secretary of ...

US President Donald Trump hates US trade deficits, loves US tariffs and is mostly indifferent, if not hostile, toward multilateral arrangements including ASEAN.

Just hours after his confirmation as defense secretary on Friday night, Pete Hegseth issued his “message to the force” in a ...

The Senate on Friday confirmed Pete Hegseth for Defense secretary, a triumphant moment for the former Fox News host who overcame allegations of sexual misconduct, alcohol abuse and inexperience to ...

As a Republican, her vote on Hegseth’s confirmation has immense power, as Hegseth can only afford to lose three Republican ...

It is no surprise that a top member of the Trump administration, like Hegseth, faces concerns, as there have been worries that the boss himself may not be keen on Southeast Asia.

While Hegseth fumbled in responding to questions from Sen. Tammy Duckworth, who was born in Bangkok and injured in combat ...

In a heated Senate confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, Sen. Tammy Duckworth grilled the proposed defense secretary over ...

Pete Hegseth is of course the living ... Does he know which countries are in the ASEAN bloc? (The answers are no and no.) The ...

Pete Hegseth, the former Fox News host and military ... a single country in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). For some Southeast Asian observers, this may be another example ...

Hegseth responded at the heated Senate confirmation hearing that he couldn't tell Duckworth the exact number of ASEAN nations, but that “I know we have allies in South Korea and Japan in AUKUS ...

Timor-Leste and Papua New Guinea are “observer states". Pete Hegseth doesn't know which countries are in ASEAN when asked by Senator Tammy Duckworth. This exemplifies how utterly unfit Pete ...