China and the Philippines have each unfurled their national flags on tiny sandbars in the South China Sea, staking competing ...

HMS Spay was among those taking part ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Navy on Monday slammed China’s claim that a Philippine ... WPS was based on its assertion of sovereignty over almost the entire South China Sea, including most of ...

The People’s Liberation Army Southern Theatre Command said on Sunday night that the BRP Apolinario Mabini, a Jacinto-class patrol vessel in the Philippine Navy ... Island in China and Panatag ...

While Philippines was absent from forum, members passed updated Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea ... navy chiefs have met for talks during a naval forum in northeast China amid tensions in the ...

But as the ASEAN and China profess commitment to finalizing a COC in the South China Sea, nine Chinese naval vessels including an aircraft carrier made “expeditious” passage through Philippine ...

Chen Xiangmiao, director of the World Navy Research Center at the National Institute for South China Sea Studies, told the Global Times that this demonstrates the CCG's effective control ...

said a chain of Chinese structures in the Yellow Sea could ultimately obstruct South Korean or Korea-based US naval vessels from accessing the East China Sea in the event of a conflict in the ...

NMESIS enhances sea denial capabilities, reinforces naval integrating ... beginning in the South China Sea.” The Philippines and China have overlapping claims in the South China Sea, and ...

A Royal Navy petrol ship joined forces with Commonwealth allies to help defend Malaysia and Singapore from invasion. For the second time in six months, HMS Spey, operated closely with regional ...

Jeremy was China Political & Diplomatic Editor in the Wall Street Journal's Beijing bureau, leading coverage of domestic politics, international relations and security. He joined the Journal in ...