The U.S. Seventh Fleet confirmed to Newsweek the ocean surveillance ship USNS "Victorious" was deployed in the South China Sea.

The first simultaneous deployment of two Chinese carrier groups beyond the strategically vital First Island Chain took place ...

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 ...

Chinese aircraft carrier strike groups have been operating further from home shores and in greater strength than ever before, ...

Vietnamese police are investigating a Chinese tea brand over an online map featuring Beijing's disputed claims in the South China Sea, authorities said. Police in commercial hub Ho Chi Minh City ...

While reporting on the tensions between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea, 60 Minutes was on board as a Philippine ship was rammed — then surrounded — by larger Chinese vessels.

The South China Sea is among the world’s busiest waterways, with roughly one-third of global shipping passing through it. Trillions of dollars in trade traverse this route annually.

Iran last disrupted traffic in the Persian Gulf in April last year when it seized an Israel-linked container ship near the ...

Nearly a quarter of global maritime trade goes through the South China Sea. In recent years, it’s become the site of clashes between Chinese coast guard ships and Philippine vessels as Beijing ...

Why has the South China Sea become a source of ... Southeast Asia has one of the fastest-growing levels of defense spending in the world; ... Michael Bricknell created the map for this ...

Illustration: Liu Xidan/GT. Recently, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth played up the "tensions in the South China Sea" and the so-called "China threat" at the Shangri-La Dialogue.

Some $7.4 trillion in trade flows through the waters of the South China Sea and the East China Sea each year — at least as of 2019, before the global pandemic disrupted supply chains ...