The concept of “maritime rights” is taking an increasingly central role in China’s framing of national security – and the ...

A California-based Coast Guard cutter has completed a three-day port call on Palawan, the Philippines, not far from the scene ...

Japan believes China's continued installation of oil and natural gas platforms violates the spirit of a 2008 deal to jointly ...

Beijing is trying to win over other countries with vows of economic cooperation. But it won’t back down from its territorial claims, experts predict.

And as Cambodia’s chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2012 and the Philippines’ pursuit of arbitration over the South China Sea disputes from 2013 to 2016 ...

The Japan Coast Guard (JCG) has announced that four China Coast Guard (CCG) vessels entered Japanese territorial waters off the coast of disputed islands in the East China Sea, and that a ...

The South China Sea is one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes and holds strategic and economic significance for many countries — including European and Nordic nations engaged in Indo-Pacific trade.

Even U.S. allies locked in national security disputes with Beijing, like the Philippines, are finding it impossible to resist ...

SINGAPORE: China’s national flag was recently unfurled on a disputed reef in the South China Sea by its uniformed ... firm position over the territorial disputes and external pressures, said ...

Under authoritarian President Xi Jinping, Beijing has continued to expand its reach into the South China Sea's strategically ... the latest in a long line of disputes which are growing ever ...

FORMATION flight of the Philippine Air Force’s FA-50 aircraft and US B-1B bomber aircraft, F16 aircraft and F18 aircraft during a bilateral air patrol over the South China Sea on April 29. — ...

The two countries each have ongoing maritime disputes with China: Beijing claims nearly the entire South China Sea, including areas within the Philippines' exclusive economic zone, as well as ...