MID-RANKING diplomatic and maritime officials of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and China resumed ...

Spratly Islands consist of more than 100 small islands or reef and are located in the South China Sea.Chinese Foreign ...

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

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 ...

Vietnam, China's neighbor and the country with the second-largest footprint in the Spratly Islands, has been expanding its presence at a rapid clip. Since June, Vietnam has reclaimed 641 acres of ...

In terms of artificial land, Vietnam has now created 2,236 acres in the Spratly Islands, around 63 percent of China’s 3,500 acres. This landfill included 143 new acres at Barque Canada Reef ...

China's military said it warned and drove away three Philippine aircraft that "illegally intruded" into the airspace near the Spratly Islands on Thursday. There was no immediate comment from the ...

China appears to have made headway in the ... completed a survey of five islands in the archipelago known as Spratly Islands. The Spratlys are claimed by multiple Southeast Asian countries ...

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 ...

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 ...

and even artificial islands.It is rarely inhabited, causing tremendous tension in the South China Sea.Diplomatic chess is played in the Spratly Islands, which for the time being is too complicated ...

The Kexue, seen in 2019, is one of China’s vessels for exploring deep waters. The ocean floor is shaping up to be the next theater of global resource competition. (Zhang Jinggang/Imaginechina/AP ...