It is also unlikely to make a major impact on negotiations for the ASEAN–China Code of Conduct (COC) on the South China Sea, which have been stalled for two decades over more fundamental issues of ...

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 ...

Credit: X/Pete Hegseth China’s military says that it conducted a patrol in the South China Sea on Friday, the same day that U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrived in Manila and reaffirmed ...

The Philippines is positioning itself as an emerging secondary hub in China-based firms’ global supply chains to avoid the brunt of US tariffs, but analysts are split on whether its growing ...

However, his geopolitical stance on the South China Sea (SCS) remains ambiguous, given his reluctance to engage in global conflicts, withdrawal from trade and commerce, and international security ...

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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 ...

West Philippine Sea and South China Sea are not the same. West Philippine Sea refers to waters inside the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) which, by international law, are waters up to 200 ...

The six Chinese suspects and a Filipino were caught amid heightened territorial tensions in the South China Sea. China’s flyers flout aviation rules with flares and flybys China's aggressive behavior ...

In Yunnan (a province larger than Germany in China's far southwest), the Lux hotel group has opened eight properties around one of the main historic routes (now a Tarmacked road) from the city of ...

PLA’s Southern Theatre Command conducted ‘routine patrol’, spokesman says, as Philippines and Japan hold naval drills with treaty ally US.

Photo by Tanaphong Toochinda on Unsplash China does not include the debts of state-owned enterprises into its accounts. These businesses, which are controlled either by the central government or by ...