Vietnam is following in the footsteps of rival Spratly Islands claimant China in building military-purposed infrastructure, ...

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.

In 2021, Vietnam began expanding some of its small- and medium-sized outposts in the Spratly Islands through dredging ... impact on negotiations for the ASEAN–China Code of Conduct (COC) on the South ...

And in 2018, Vietnam cut a scene from the romantic comedy “Crazy Rich Asians” that featured a designer bag with a map of the world showing the disputed South China Sea islands under Beijing’s control.

“The Philippine side, with U.S. support and solicitation, has been stirring up trouble in many spots in the South China Sea,” Wu Qian ... China’s” Spratly Islands and Scarborough Shoal ...

China deployed ... of H-6 bombers into the South China Sea as its military presence has grown, starting with landings on improved runways in the disputed Paracel islands in 2018.