Vietnam’s island reclamation activities in the South China Sea made headlines in 2024 with a record area of land created and several airstrips planned on the new islands.

Some observers predict that the island will become China's most advanced military facility and most important strategic base in the South China Sea, with the potential to reach 60 sq km (23 square ...

Although China is not the first state to build an airstrip in the South China Sea, it is the first state to employ island-building technologies to transform a contested maritime ...

Over the past two years, an increasingly confident and belligerent China has thrust its South China Sea aggression into ... strategically important “first island chain”—the strategic line ...

MANILA, Philippines — Chinese coast guard ships and a Chinese navy helicopter harassed a group of Philippine fisheries vessels conducting a scientific survey in a hotly disputed area of the ...

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Beijing faces greater risks of aerial rather than maritime confrontations with the Philippines in the South China Sea, a leading Chinese ... controlled by China as Huangyan Island, is also claimed ...

The risk of conflict in the South China Sea is significant ... reconnaissance plane and a Chinese F-8 fighter jet near Hainan Island. A comparable maritime incident could be triggered by Chinese ...

Screenshot from Philippine Coast Guard video Last year, Chinese and Philippine forces came head-to-head at multiple maritime features throughout the South China Sea in the most serious incidents ...

A Philippine security official said Tuesday that China is “pushing us to the wall” with growing aggression in the disputed South China Sea and warned that “all options are on the table” for Manila’s ...

The Philippines is upgrading facilities on Thitu Island, its only inhabited outpost in the disputed Spratly Islands, in a move seen as an effort to catch up with rival South China Sea claimants.

Beijing faces greater risks of aerial rather than maritime confrontations with the Philippines in the South China Sea, a leading Chinese analyst has warned. The note of caution from Hu Bo ...