Chinese activities in the South China Sea have remained a focal point ... the East Asian power constructed seven artificial islands in the Spratly archipelago, a cluster claimed by five other ...

The name South China ... over the South China Sea islands, the expert said. The Philippines has been propagandizing it more than a decade ago. The recent change by certain map service providers ...

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.

Such hype will neither change history nor alter the fact that China holds indisputable sovereignty over the South China Sea islands ... recent change by certain map service providers might ...

This deep-sea station represents China’s most ambitious bid to map this frontier ... Vietnam claims the Paracel and Spratly Islands and has clashed with China in 1974 and 1988.