Vietnam has formally protested recent territorial claims made by both China and the Philippines over Second Thomas Shoal, ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...