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.

Frequent and illegal human activities by the Philippines have caused damage to the coral reef ecosystems around Tiexian Reef in the South China Sea, said a report released by the Ministry of ...

This fallout coincided with rising tensions between the Philippines and China in the South China Sea, including a November 2022 incident in which the Chinese Coast Guard (CCG) forcibly seized space ...

The Philippines said Thursday that two Chinese ... Shandong was deployed to the disputed South China Sea for a second time in April, according to the US Naval Institute (USNI).

China claims virtually the entire South China Sea, a major security and global trade route. The Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan also have overlapping claims to the resource-rich ...

Tensions between China and the Philippines over the South China Sea have escalated in the last two years, including in the Scarborough Shoal, a prime fishing patch claimed by both as their territory.

beginning in the South China Sea.” Major General Francisco Lorenzo, director of this year’s exercises for the Philippines, tried to downplay the perception that the military drills were aimed ...

MANILA - The Philippines voiced concerns about the South China Sea, including incidents that endangered its vessels and personnel, during negotiations between Asean and China for a code of conduct ...

ABOARD BRP JOSE RIZAL, South China Sea — The United States, Japan and the Philippines on Friday staged joint naval drills to boost crisis readiness off a disputed South China Sea shoal as a ...