China's November engagement in the Indo-Pacific included ongoing territorial disputes in the South China Sea, uncertain ...
Four major developments shaped the security environment in the South China Sea in 2024: (1) increased Chinese coercion ...
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--The United States deployed a reconnaissance aircraft while Japan and the Philippines sent navy ships in a joint patrol in the disputed South China ... from Scarborough Shoal, a fishing ...
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 ...
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 ...
Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative said that dredging and landfills had caused “irreparable damage” to the marine habitat.
They follow a series of clashes between the two countries’ coastguards over the past year around disputed South China Sea features.
The Philippine navy said on Friday its ships were holding drills near a contested shoal in the South China Sea, a day after Manila and Beijing agreed to seek common ground and find ways to cooperate ...