Mischief and Subi reefs are among the artificial islands China has used to expand its offensive capabilities in the region.

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

Despite these upgrades, it remains unlikely that Vietnam could hold the islands against a concerted Chinese ... major impact on negotiations for the ASEAN–China Code of Conduct (COC) on the South ...

President Trump has complained the U.S.-Japan defense partnership is one-sided, but with China throwing its weight around, ...

The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative estimates that Hanoi has created 641 new acres of land in the disputed Spratly ...

Experts say it might be legally and logistically difficult to repurpose Grande and Chiquita Islands but political will might ...

It's Beijing's latest move to assert sovereignty over the hotly disputed atoll in the South China Sea, satellite images ...

Signed in 2002 by China and the ten ASEAN member states, the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties (DOC) in the South China ...

a move to bolster its presence in waters facing the South China Sea. Grande and Chiquita islands are located in Subic Bay, which was once a sprawling U.S. base until the Philippines rejected a ...

The specimens were the bycatch of a fishing vessel in the South China Sea, which researchers later bought to study.

The United States, Japan and the Philippines have staged joint naval drills to boost crisis readiness off a disputed South ...

Since then, the state has grown steadily more risk-tolerant in efforts to “reclaim” the islands and waters of the South China Sea as a necessary part of the “Great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.” ...