A specialized United States naval vessel capable of collecting critical underwater data was recently tracked operating in the ...

In recent months, multiple Chinese vessels in the South China Sea have threatened to collide with Philippine ships in a region called Scarborough Shoal, north of Mischief Reef. Also in Scarborough ...

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 released a new map for its southernmost ... s claims to the resource-rich South China Sea. The Ministry of Civil Affairs has also assigned administrative region identifiers to the two ...

Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines have all attempted to counter Chinese claims to waters within their exclusive economic ...

The new map features a 10-dash line that includes the eastern parts of the disputed South China Sea that fall within the Philippines’ 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ), which the ...

Maritime clashes between China and the Philippines over contested waters in the South China Sea threaten the balance of power ...

Chinese air and naval forces have stepped up patrols and combat drills near the shoal since Beijing published geographic coordinates to map out ... in the South China Sea said the region saw ...

Each may view increased Philippine capability in the South China Sea as potential brake on Beijing’s strategic advances elsewhere in the region. One other option is to bring the issue to the UN ...

Hainan, a palm-fringed island known as China ... in the South China Sea, split across two deepwater bays and featuring the two most expensive military infrastructure items in the region today ...