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 ...

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 ...