China’s coast guard blamed the Philippines for the collision, saying the vessels entered the waters illegally without China’s permission and landed personnel on Sandy Cay, it said, using the ...

Can one purchase have the Philippines change its air defense posture and tip the scales in the South China Sea? That is the ...

The back and forth over Sandy Cay is the latest flare-up in a long-running dispute over territory in the hotly contested South China Sea, which China claims almost in its entirety.

The Chinese military has landed on the uninhabited disputed Sandy Cay reef in the South China Sea. It is located just a few kilometers from the Philippines' most important military outpost on ...

Part of the contested Spratly Islands, the Sandy Cay is the closest reef to the Subi Reef, China’s second largest artificial island and military base in the South China Sea.

The photo-off on Sandy Cay is more of a stunt than a threat, Poling said. However, if matters escalate in the South China Sea, particularly in Scarborough Shoal, the US has a mutual defense treaty ...

It did not say China was occupying the feature. CCTV showed pictures of four coast guard personnel in black combat gear holding a Chinese flag after arriving on Sandy Cay on an inflatable dinghy.

The back and forth over Sandy Cay is the latest flare-up in a long-running dispute over territory in the hotly contested South China Sea, which China claims almost in its entirety.

China's foreign ministry said on Monday it "resolutely upholds the seriousness" of a 2002 declaration with its Southeast Asian neighbours on conduct in the South China Sea, which included not ...