WEST PHILIPPINE SEA — China has flexed its muscles yet again, illegally blocking a Philippine maritime mission and chasing ...

Along with Taiwan, the standoff between the Philippines and China over a series of contested ... of a research vessel with a Chinese flag near a province in the main island of Luzon.

while artists in dragon costumes performed a traditional dance and onlookers waved Chinese and Philippine flags. China’s ambassador to the Philippines was on hand for the ceremony but neither he ...