The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies said on Tuesday that it observed new facilities on China’s so-called big-three island outposts in the ...

Map of where the Paracel Islands and Spratly Islands are located in the South China Sea.Business Insider Tensions continue in the South China Sea, most recently between China and the Philippines.

Philippine officials say Chinese forces have fired three flares from an artificial island toward a Philippine plane undertaking a routine patrol in the disputed South China Sea.

Vietnam has revved up South China Sea land reclamation efforts this year, beginning construction on eight previously ...

The Philippines has responded to Beijing's criticism by releasing aerial footage of artificial islands where China has expanded its military reach in the contested South China Sea. These artificial ...

WASHINGTON >> Vietnam has significantly expanded island-building work in areas it claims in the Spratly Islands chain of the disputed South China Sea and will match and likely surpass the scale of ...

A Chinese coast guard ship used a powerful water cannon on Sunday then rammed and slightly damaged an anchored Philippine government vessel off an island inhabited by Filipinos in the disputed South ...

The artificial island, built upon a rock, serves as China's administrative center in the contested waters, one it first occupied in the 1950s. Its military facilities, including a 20-hangar airstrip, ...

The U.S. has flown a B-52 bomber mission near disputed islands in the South China Sea, according to U.S. Pacific Air Forces. The last reported B-52 mission in the vicinity of the South China Sea was ...

Vietnam continues to expand and develop its outposts in the Spratly Islands at a rapid pace after a “record year of island building in 2024,” a U.S. think tank said last week. In a briefing published ...

Hanoi has now begun land reclamation work at all 21 of the rocks and low-tide elevations that it occupies in the disputed island group. Vietnam continues to expand and develop its outposts in the ...