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

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 ...

China’s increased deployment of drones in the airspace around the Nansei Islands that span Kyushu and Okinawa Island is seen ...

Homeland Security Investigations say the new case involves a route common for human trafficking to Guam, a U.S. territory.

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.

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 ...

Despite these upgrades, it remains unlikely that Vietnam could hold the islands against a concerted Chinese effort to take them ... It is also unlikely to make a major impact on negotiations for the ...

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

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