The Philippines and China have been locked in a months-long war of words and coastguard skirmishes over territory in the South China Sea, with the Second Thomas Shoal, where an old warship was ...

Under authoritarian President Xi Jinping, Beijing has continued to expand its reach into the South China Sea's strategically ... Close to Sabina Shoal lies the Second Thomas Shoal, where a ...

Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte and current President Marcos Jr’s differing South China Sea strategies reveal the ...

With China aggressively insisting on the legality of its baseless nine, now 10-dash line, which covers almost the entire ...

The Philippines has successfully carried out its seventh resupply mission to a military outpost on the disputed Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea without Chinese interference, but ...

US and Philippine forces are to conduct their first “full battle test” for fighting together in flashpoints such as Taiwan or ...

China's coast ... over manoeuvres at Second Thomas Shoal, an atoll within Manila's 200-nautical-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the South China Sea. China claims almost the entire South ...

China and the Philippines accused each other on Tuesday of dangerous manoeuvres in a hotly disputed shoal in the South China Sea, in the latest confrontation over the waterway.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's ... manoeuvres at Second Thomas Shoal, an atoll within Manila's 200-nautical-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the South China Sea. China claims almost the entire ...

including in the Scarborough Shoal, a prime fishing patch claimed by both as their territory. China claims nearly the entire South China Sea, a vital waterway for more than $3 trillion of annual ...