The Philippine government threw the U.S. military off our bases there in 1991. Now it is crying wolf.

A United States special mission vessel—designed to monitor missile launches—was spotted underway off China's coast in the Yellow Sea last month, according to ship-tracking data.

China has sanctioned a former Filipino lawmaker, Francis Tolentino, who sponsored legislation that marks out the Philippines’ territorial claims in the disputed South China Sea. Tolentino, who ...

South Korea under President Lee Jae-myung is returning to pragmatic diplomacy, maintaining its US alliance while rejecting confrontation with China, reflecting public sentiment and prioritizing ...

Stations,” and then came the sea drones retrieved from the waters off Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao in 2022 and 2024. In 2018 and 2020, the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) reported that ...

China and Vietnam have been locked in a dispute over the sea, and tensions escalated in July when the Chinese conducted an energy survey in waters Vietnam claims.

The CSIS Southeast Asia Program and Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative are pleased to present the Fifteenth Annual South China Sea Conference.

USS Nimitz leaves South China Sea, heads to Middle East as tensions rise.

The U.S. could be drawn into a conflict between China and the Philippines that's been roiling the South China Sea.

China claims almost the entire South China Sea, including parts claimed by Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam.