The South China Sea has evolved from a contested maritime region into something far more dangerous — an electronic ...

A flurry of Vietnamese island fortifications and intensifying Chinese activity show the rising odds of confrontation in the ...

Instead, Antelope Reef, as this cay is known, is beginning to look a lot like China’s large military airbase at Mischief Reef. One of three airbases which China built during a spree of island-building ...

WASHINGTON: Vietnam has expanded its island building in the South China Sea's disputed Spratly archipelago in the past year, adding 216.1 hectares of land, and has also begun to construct specialised ...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi used a high-level UN Security Council meeting to call for renewed respect for sovereignty, ...

The geopolitics of the South China Sea in 2025 were shaped by four trends: continued confrontations between the China Coast Guard (CCG) and claimant states; renewed construction and militarization of ...

New images of the Chinese ekranoplan show the presence of underwing weapons pylons, suggesting a strike role in addition to rapid support and resupply for amphibious operations in the South China Sea.

MANILA, Philippines — The United States hit China’s continued defiance of the 2016 arbitral ruling that invalidated Beijing’s unlawful and expansive claims in the South China Sea and its aggressive ...

Vietnamese fishers in 2010-2011 in Lý Sơn island. Credit: André Menras In early 2010, a few months after he received Vietnamese honorary citizenship, André Menras, a French national, decided to set ...

This is Antelope Reef, home to China’s latest artificial island — and one of its largest — in contested waters of the South China Sea. Satellite images show dozens of dredgers, which grind up the ...

Philippine Navy ship Jose Rizal leads maneuvers with U.S. Navy destroyer Shoup, center, and Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force frigate JS Noshiro, right, during joint drills in the South China Sea ...