Such hype will neither change history nor alter the fact that China holds indisputable sovereignty over the South China Sea islands, the expert said. The Philippines has been propagandizing it ...

09:23 History, money and military: why the South China Sea is so important to Beijing History, money and military: why the South China Sea is so important to Beijing A breakthrough or rapid ...

The risk of conflict in the South China Sea is significant ... available to mitigate the potential negative effects. The history of crisis management in U.S.-China relations suggests that leaders ...

China claims more than 90 percent of the South China Sea, asserting historical rights. These territorial claims overlap with competing ones by the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia ...

Most coverage of the South China Sea territorial disputes ... largely driven by Beijing's militarization of the sea, against a background of historical rivalry between the two countries that ...

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An earlier version of this story inaccurately described Eric Schluessel's job as "an associate professor in the department of history at ... Philippines in the South China Sea to sporadic ethnic ...