29 nations’ military leaders attend defense chiefs’ meeting at Aguinaldo

Military leaders of 29 nations ended Wednesday a three-day Chiefs of Defense (CHOD) Conference at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City, hosted by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the United States Pacific Command. Marine Col. Edgard A. Arevalo, chief of the AFP Public Affairs Office, said the meeting gathered the chiefs of defense and senior military leaders of Myanmar, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam, India, Nepal, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Fiji, Canada, China, Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, Chile, Colombia, France, Mexico, Peru, United Kingdom, and the US. The annual gathering is held to strengthen military cooperation, promote collaboration, and discuss security challenges in the Indo-Pacific maritime and geopolitical sphere. The discussion, Arevalo said, centered on regional military cooperation and challenges, with discussions on “Future Regional Order in the Indo-Asia-Pacific,” “Military Cooperation in Transnational Security,” and “Prospects for Maritime Shared Awareness, Technology, and [...]