China has seized a disputed reef just kilometres away from the Philippines’ most important military outpost in the South ...

A Philippine intelligence official says sand from Manila Bay and elsewhere may have been used as landfill for Chinese military outposts.

BEIJING -- China's Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) issued a survey report on Friday, debunking "sea reclamation" allegations concerning the country's Tiexian Jiao and Niu'e Jiao in the South ...

The Philippines says it has contingency plans to counter China's actions including filing a diplomatic protest against ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Philippines on Monday rejected China’s claim ...

PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr., has ordered an investigation into claims by the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) that sand from the Philippines’ coastal areas is being used for ...

The South China Sea is bound by China, Taiwan, and several southeast Asian nations. China claims jurisdiction over most of it, but countries like Vietnam and the Philippines claim territorial ...

Back in 2022, a Bloomberg report pointed out that China has been carrying out reclamation at some features in the ... out that “given the sweeping claims to parts of the South China Sea, ordinarily a ...

Most coverage of the South China Sea territorial disputes has understandably ... China has over the past 15 years undertaken extensive land reclamation projects and militarized the features ...

Contingency Planning Memoranda identify plausible scenarios that could have serious consequences for U.S. interests and propose measures to both prevent and mitigate them. Territorial disputes in ...