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

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

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

The posts, isolated from the rest of the world behind the Chinese Communist Party’s “Great Internet Firewall”, advocate the ...

March 31, 2025: During January 2025 Chinese and Filipino coast guard ships collided ships in the South China Sea near Second Thomas Shoal. Four Filipino crewmen were injured. China also employed 40 ...

The largest beneficiary of America’s tariff-induced meltdown has been China—which has used past Western crises to stake out ...

Occupied by Vietnam since the 1980s, the reef in the Spratly Islands is claimed by several countries, in a dispute that has intensified as China and the United States vie for influence in the ...

For Malaysia, the implications are considerable due to conflicting territorial claims, especially regarding its exclusive ...

It continues to dredge at a blistering pace and will likely match China’s acreage in 2025. The most impressive work has been on Barque Canada Reef, now the fourth-largest outpost in the Spratly ...

“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 ...