Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan. You ...

Vietnam is on a South China Sea island-building binge that will likely see it soon surpass the area China has reclaimed in the strategic and contested Spratly Islands, according to a new report from ...

China’s and Russia’s newly intensified naval partnership could embolden China in the South China Sea, where submarine activity is already intense. Russia and China are natural historical rivals. The ...

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China has slammed the Philippines for holding naval drills with allies the US, Canada and Australia in the disputed South China Sea. Manila insists the exercises are aimed at upholding a rules-based ...

BEIJING, Sept 4 (Reuters) - China's navy conducted a "routine patrol" in the South China Sea on September 3, a spokesperson for its Southern Theatre Command said on Thursday, while accusing the ...

China’s Ministry of Natural Resources released a report Monday, contending that US “freedom of navigation operations” (FON) in the South China Sea have “no legal basis” under international law. The ...

China’s sweeping South China Sea claims were rebuked by a 2016 the Hague ruling. Malaysia continues Petronas-led drilling inside its EEZ despite Chinese protests. Much of the “Malaysian” oil landing ...

Russian submarine RFS Volkhov (B-603), shown here, and a PLAN submarine sailed together for the first time in early August 2025 in the Sea of Japan. The Russian submarine was spotted Aug. 20, 2025, ...

Microsoft Corp. is warning that Azure customers in the Middle East may face latency issues following undersea cables being cut in the Red Sea off Saudi Arabia. The cable cuts started to affect traffic ...

This recent patrol marks the first time the Russian Navy and China’s PLAN carried out a joint submarine patrol. In recent years, Russia and China have conducted joint military operations on land, sea, ...