Key Points and Summary – New satellite imagery reveals China has transformed its artificial islands in the South China Sea ...

China is bolstering its presence in the South China Sea with a 3,200 hectare network of military bases, including some ...

The sea is valuable and contested. The South China Sea has some of the world’s most productive fisheries, as well as shipping channels that carry about a third of global ocean trade.

Beijing faces greater risks of aerial rather than maritime confrontations with the Philippines in the South China Sea, a leading Chinese analyst has warned. The note of caution from Hu Bo ...

Beijing claims “indisputable sovereignty” over almost all of the 1.3 million square miles of the South China Sea, as well as most of the islands and sandbars within it, including many features ...

The Philippines is stepping up efforts to make sure people around the world can see for themselves what it says are “aggressive” acts by Chinese ships in the South China Sea in a bid to ...

In recent talks with China's top diplomat Wang Yi in New York, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken raised China's "dangerous and destabilising actions" in the South China Sea.

Chinese Coast Guard boats close to the floating barrier are pictured on September 20, 2023, near the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, in this handout image released by the Philippine ...

Philippine troops watch a Philippine coast guard ship as they secure an area at the Philippine-occupied Thitu island, locally called Pag-asa island, on Dec. 1, 2023, at the disputed South China Sea.