A flurry of Vietnamese island fortifications and intensifying Chinese activity show the rising odds of confrontation in the ...

Thirty Chinese navy and coast guard vessels were detected across multiple contested South China Sea features, according to Philippine Rear Adm. Roy Vincent Trinidad. China deployed its largest force ...

HONG KONG / MANILA >> China is employing ships and a barrier to tighten control of the entrance to the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea amid roiling tension with the Philippines over the ...

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Vietnam has revved up its land reclamation efforts in the South China Sea this year, beginning construction on eight previously untouched features in the Spratly Islands.

The geopolitics of the South China Sea in 2025 were shaped by four trends: continued confrontations between the China Coast Guard (CCG) and claimant states; renewed construction and militarization of ...

IT HAS BEEN a tense final deployment for USS Nimitz, America’s oldest aircraft-carrier and one of the world’s largest. On October 26th one of its helicopters went down in the waters of the South China ...

Dec. 11 (UPI) --Vietnam has quietly accelerated land reclamation at South Reef, a once-remote coral feature in the contested Spratly Islands, signaling a new strategic turn as pressure from China ...

Meeting in New Delhi, the Quad Foreign Ministers voiced serious concern over the situation in the East and South China Seas.

A satellite image of fishing vessels at the entrance, which is blocked by a floating barrier, to the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea on April 11. - Photo: Reuters HONG KONG/MANILA: ...