Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

Chinese media says coastguard units entered remote sandbank, known in China as Tiexian Reef, ‘to exercise sovereignty’ ...

The Chinese military has landed on the uninhabited disputed Sandy Cay reef in the South China Sea. It is located just a few ...

China’s second largest artificial island and military base in the South China Sea. It is also only several kilometres from Thitu Island, the largest base the Philippines currently holds.