Having spent years observing geopolitics in East Asia and in particular maritime security, over time one truth has become increasingly clear: the South China Sea is not just a contested maritime ...

HANOI, June 22 (Reuters) - U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs Daniel Kritenbrink on Saturday said the situation in the South China Sea is deeply concerning ...

Over the past 10 to 15 years, the South China Sea (SCS) has emerged as an arena ... preventing China from becoming a regional hegemon in East Asia; and pursing these goals as part of a larger ...

China has published baselines for a contested shoal in the South China Sea it had seized from the Philippines ... which are part of a key shipping route in Asia.

Philippine President Ferdinand R Marcos Jr’s outreach to Vietnam for maritime cooperation comes against a backdrop of China’s assertiveness in the South China Sea (SCS) and regional countries’ ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping seems to be betting that America’s entanglement in conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East is ... in Asia — including in the South China Sea, through which ...

China’s focus in the Pacific and its interests in the East ... Asia have only complicated matters. As the China–Russia strategic partnership—which conducted a joint exercise in the South ...

A major redrawing of the map of the South China Sea ... set of mini-confrontations in which China seeks to enforce its will on the sea while South-East Asian countries push back.

The East Asia Summit came on the heels of meetings of the Asean grouping, where the Philippines has led the charge in criticising Beijing’s actions in the hotly disputed South China Sea.