Four major developments shaped the security environment in the South China Sea in 2024: (1) increased Chinese coercion ...

Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative said that dredging and landfills had caused “irreparable damage” to the marine habitat.

The South China Sea has long been a stage for US-China ... including announcing baselines around Scarborough Shoal and stepping up reef patrols. Simultaneously, the United States maintained ...

A Philippine security official says China is “pushing us to the wall” with growing aggression in the disputed South China Sea and warned that “all options are on the table” for Manila’s response, ...

MANILA (Reuters) -- The Philippine navy said on Friday its ships were holding drills near a contested shoal in the South China Sea, a day after ... exercise around the Scarborough shoal, one ...

China claims almost the entire South China Sea, one of the world’s busiest sea lanes. A United Nations-backed tribunal based in the Hague in 2016 voided its claim for being illegal, as it ruled ...

The exercise around the Scarborough Shoal, one of Asia’s most hotly ... bilateral mechanism set up to address issues in the South China Sea, China and the Philippines both agreed to boost ...

The move comes against the backdrop of rising tension between the Philippines, a U.S. treaty ally, and Beijing during the past two years, stemming from their overlapping claims in the busy ...

Bajo de Masinloc is the Philippine name for Scarborough Shoal, a contested maritime ... included in domestic law defining its South China Sea claims. Beijing responded by mapping out its baseline ...

They follow a series of clashes between the two countries’ coastguards over the past year around disputed South China Sea features.