China appears to be reviving its now-familiar “gray zone” tactics — subtle, nonmilitary maneuvers to expand control without open confrontation — this time in the Yellow Sea aimed at Korea.

China has been extending its reach in the South China Sea by building artificial islands atop reefs. China's claims over these islands is unlawful and many countries are fighting back.

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“I think the South China Sea is the perfect example of what the CCP does when they develop leverage,” Huth said. “There were simply atolls there that they added sand to.

The Philippines and its security allies would take measures to counter any attempt by China to impose an air defense zone or restrict freedom of flights over the South China Sea, Defense Secretary ...

China claims sovereignty over almost the entire South China Sea, including parts of the exclusive economic zones of Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Vietnam. In 2016, an international ...

At a fishing port in Taiwan, researchers bought four giant crustaceans hauled in as bycatch by a trawling vessel in the South China Sea. The deep-sea dwellers, resembling supersized woodlice, were ...

China has installed large steel cages and a former oil drilling rig in the Yellow Sea, raising concerns in South Korea that they could be used for military purposes.

The South China Sea. Since 1952, Beijing has claimed virtually the entire sea, everything inside what's referred to as the nine dash line. In 2023, China added a tenth dash off Taiwan.

Under a 2000 agreement, China and South Korea established the provisional measures zone (PMZ) in the Yellow Sea, where their 230-mile-wide exclusive economic zones (EEZs) overlap, paving the way ...

Tensions in the Yellow Sea, known in South Korea as the West Sea, have been heightened by large-scale Chinese fishing operations within South Korea's exclusive economic zone (EEZ), where maritime ...