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 the map on Monday of its famous U-shaped line covering about 90% of the South China Sea, a source of many of the disputes in one of the world's most contested waterways, where more ...

China’s new map also overlaps with Malaysia’s hydrocarbon-rich EEZ off the coasts of Sabah and Sarawak, which prompted the Kuala Lumpur government to file a formal diplomatic protest.

China’s new map could worsen clashes in the area, said Donald Rothwell, a professor of law at the Australian National University in Canberra, who focuses on the law of the sea.

China's first operational aircraft carrier, the Soviet-built Liaoning, was underway in the Bohai Sea for training on Wednesday. It was previously moored pierside at its home port in Qingdao, a ...

A new China map shows the South China Sea with a dashed line around claimed Chinese territory. A new line next to Taiwan is also seen on the map at a bookstore in Beijing, Sept. 1, 2023. If a ...

One of China 's three "flat-tops" was underway in the country's nearby waters in the Bohai Sea. The rest of them are in their home ports.

China's first operational aircraft carrier, the Soviet-built Liaoning, was underway in the Bohai Sea for training on Wednesday. It was previously moored pierside at its home port in Qingdao, a ...