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 ...

BEIJING, March 29 (Reuters) - China's military said it had conducted a patrol in the South China Sea on Friday, the day U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reaffirmed Washington's commitment to ...

In the turbulent waters of the South China Sea, Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro has been sounding the alarm with all the subtlety of a foghorn. His recent interview paints China as a ...

Contingency Planning Memoranda identify plausible scenarios that could have serious consequences for U.S. interests and propose measures to both prevent and mitigate them. The risk of conflict in ...

China has accused the Group of 7 of “arrogance, prejudice and malice” after the bloc’s latest criticisms of Beijing’s activities in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait. The Chinese ...

it seems that no amount of diplomacy is working to prevent China from its aggression in the South China Sea, especially in areas where the Philippines has exclusive sovereign rights. This was pointed ...

An international arbitration panel invalidated China’s expansive claims in a 2016 ruling based on the 1982 U.N. Convention of the Law of the Sea, but Beijing refused to participate in the ...

The Philippines' foreign ministry also said the "real issue is China's refusal to abide by international law" and how its "illegal, coercive, aggressive and deceptive behavior at sea" have ...