"The South China Sea is a large marine basin with geological conditions conducive to the formation of such clastic oilfield in deep to ultra-deep layers," Wang Yamin, a professor at the Shandong ...

“This discovery has confirmed the largest integrated clastic oilfield in the northern South China Sea in terms of original oil in place, breaking the traditional theoretical understanding ...

China previously erected similar structures in April and May 2024, only to remove them later following protests from Seoul. Tensions in the Yellow Sea, known in South Korea as the West Sea ...

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 ...

While China does not interfere with civilian shipping in the Strait — or in the South China Sea to the south that it claims almost in its entirety — it routinely objects to actions by the U.S ...