Vietnam is following in the footsteps of rival Spratly Islands claimant China in building military-purposed infrastructure, ...
Mischief and Subi reefs are among the artificial islands China has used to expand its offensive capabilities in the region.
For Malaysia, the implications are considerable due to conflicting territorial claims, especially regarding its exclusive ...
Relations between the two countries have become increasingly fraught over the last year, with a series of clashes around the ...
The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative estimates that Hanoi has created 641 new acres of land in the disputed Spratly ...
Spratly Islands consist of more than 100 small islands or reef and are located in the South China Sea.Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun reaffirmed China's claim over the Nansha ...
According to a U.S. think tank, the country is building runways and other “potential military structures” in the South China Sea. Over the past six months, the country has reclaimed almost as ...
This teardrop-shaped reef is part of the Spratly Islands, a mostly uninhabited archipelago midway between the Philippines and Vietnam, claimed entirely by China and in its various parts by the ...
China claims nearly all of the South China Sea, including the Spratly Islands, though Taiwan, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam all claim parts of it. AIRLINK 178.86 Increased By 4.58 ...
“The Philippines is well aware that the scope of its territory is determined by a series of international treaties and has never included China’s” Spratly Islands and Scarborough ...
Most recently, China announced the creation of two new municipal districts that govern the Paracel and Spratly Islands, an attempt to strengthen its claims in the South China Sea by projecting an ...
The Spratly Islands are a group of more than 750 reefs, islets, atolls, cays and islands in the South China Sea between Vietnam, the Philippines, China, Malaysia and Brunei. They comprise less ...