China released a new map for its southernmost city of Sansha as the country works to consolidate its control over the strategically important waters of the South China Sea. The city comprises two ...

A major redrawing of the map of the South China Sea began when Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. In the subsequent three years China built seven new bases in the Spratly Islands, three of them ...

China has built structures in a disputed area of the Yellow Sea, known in Seoul as the West Sea, causing South Korea to set up a "reciprocal" platform, Seoul has previously said.

Jakarta: Indonesian patrol ships drove a Chinese coast guard vessel away from a survey vessel in a disputed area of the South China Sea for the second time in four days, Indonesian authorities ...

South Korea has expressed deep concern" over China erecting a sea structure off the west coast of the Korean Peninsula, Seoul's foreign ministry said on Thursday.

China and the U.S. have conducted competing military exercises in the disputed South China Sea less than a month after Philippine and Chinese ships collided near a contested reef in the area.

Filipino fishermen queue for free fuel from a government ship, watched by a Chinese Coast Guard ship in disputed South China Sea waters on February 15, 2024.

China issued a map in 1947 detailing its claims over a vast majority of the area with the so-called nine-dash line and calls it the South Sea, while the Philippines calls its own claimed parts the ...

The South China Sea has long been a source of tension between China and the Philippines, with the two countries making overlapping claims over a series of reefs and small islands in the area.

China reacts to Trump's tough talk on tariffs and Taiwan 02:39. China claims virtually all of the South China Sea as its territory. It is one of the world's most vital waterways, with more than $3 ...

Some $7.4 trillion in trade flows through the waters of the South China Sea and the East China Sea each year — at least as of 2019, before the global pandemic disrupted supply chains ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Chinese coast guard ships and a Chinese navy helicopter harassed a group of Philippine fisheries vessels conducting a scientific survey in a hotly disputed area of the ...