State media reports CCG officers ‘exercising maritime control’ on one of the reefs in the Spratly Islands also claimed by ...

Mischief and Subi reefs are among the artificial islands China has used to expand its offensive capabilities in the region.

1 of 3 This photo shows Discovery Great Reef, a Vietnam-built artificial feature in the South China Sea's contested Spratly Island archipelago. CSIS AMTI / Maxar While China has done the most to ...

It is geopolitically important because of its proximity to the contested Spratly Islands and the West Philippine Sea, where territorial disputes with China are ongoing. Palawan’s strategic ...

THE Philippine Navy on Thursday said it monitored a Chinese aircraft carrier, six escort ships and a spy ship near the country’s northernmost islands on Tuesday, describing their passage as “unusual” ...

Spratly Islands consist of more than 100 small islands or reef and are located in the South China Sea.Chinese Foreign ...

The posts, isolated from the rest of the world behind the Chinese Communist Party’s “Great Internet Firewall”, advocate the ...

The Spratly Islands are a group of more than 750 reefs, islets, atolls, cays and islands in the South China Sea between Vietnam, the Philippines, China, Malaysia and Brunei. They comprise less ...

THE Chinese government on Monday said ongoing joint military drills between Philippine and US forces threaten regional stability, opposing the use the “Taiwan question” to justify military ...

Meanwhile, in August 2023 a Philippine military transport ship was headed to a base in the Spratly Islands when it was sprayed with water by a Chinese government ship. Two months later ...

BEIJING--China appears to be constructing an airstrip ... the Paracel group mirrors construction on seven human-made islands in the Spratly group to the east which have been equipped with ...

MID-RANKING diplomatic and maritime officials of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and China resumed ...