China's coast guard says it has ... Another shot showed four coast guard officials posing with a national flag on the reef's white surface, in what CCTV described as a "vow of sovereignty".

China Central Television (CCTV), the state broadcaster, released a series of images last week, including one of four men wearing all black uniforms holding up the flag over the white sand ...

China and the Philippines have each unfurled their national flags on tiny sandbars in the South China Sea, staking competing sovereignty claims in strategic waters seen as a potential flashpoint for ...

on X showed five officers holding the national flag on a white sandbar. In a statement late on Sunday night, a spokesperson for the China Coast Guard said six personnel from the Philippines had ...

The Japanese Defense Ministry reported that a Chinese helicopter took off from one of four Chinese coast guard ships ... The Japanese Defense White Paper 2024 said: "China has been rapidly ...

China and the Philippines on ... CCTV on Saturday published a photograph of four coast guard officials posing with a national flag on the reef's white surface, in what the broadcaster described ...