Under authoritarian President Xi Jinping, Beijing has continued to expand its reach into the South China Sea - strategically ...

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 ...

Recent incidents in the South China Sea have increased scrutiny of the Trump ... shoring up its crumbling outpost at Second Thomas Shoal, briefly staking out a new position at Sabina Shoal, and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Second Thomas Shoal, Sabina Shoal and Whitsun Reef. Sandy Cay is the closest reef to Subi Reef, China’s second-largest artificial island and military base in the South China Sea. It is also near ...

A total of 40 Chinese vessels were spotted in the West Philippine Sea ... China Coast Guard (CCG) vessels in Bajo de Masinloc or Scarborough Shoal Six CCG vessels in Ayungin Shoal or Second Thomas ...