China Coast Guard watercraft forces were observed Aug. 20, 2025, exercising at Second Thomas Shoal with several fast boats and rigid-hulled inflatable boats armed with mounted weapons. Armed Forces of ...

Inside China’s Rare Earth Empire: The Hidden Costs in Myanmar The deployment to the shoal, the site of a series of dangerous encounters last year, could herald a new season of confrontation in the ...

China has allowed a Philippine civilian ship to deliver supplies to a warship long grounded by Manila at the Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea, the Chinese coastguard said on Tuesday. The ...

Philippine Marines deployed two small boats last week to escort a Chinese fishing boat that Manila claimed was illegally fishing at Second Thomas Shoal. The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) ...

The Philippines, a U.S. treaty ally, has reported an "unusual" show of force by Chinese units around Second Thomas Shoal, a hotly disputed submerged reef in the South China Sea's Spratly Islands. The ...

MANILA, Philippines — Filipino forces transported food, fuel and new personnel to a Philippine territorial outpost in a fiercely disputed shoal in the South China Sea, two Philippe officials said.