China’s claim to have seized a tiny sandbank in the South China Sea fits into Beijing’s “established pattern of illegal pressure” in the region, according to an expert. State media in ...

SEOUL – South Korea has expressed “deep concern” over China erecting a sea structure off the west coast of the Korean peninsula, its foreign ministry in Seoul said on April 24. The South ...

BEIJING — The Philippines on Monday rejected China’s claim to a group of three sandbars in the South China Sea, after recent ... of attempting to build a structure on one of the sandbars ...