The militaries of the U.S. and Philippines have carried out joint drills in waters adjacent to the South China Sea claimed by Beijing ...

Vietnam has sent diplomatic notes to China and the Philippines to protest against their activities in contested South China Sea waters, and urging them to respect its territorial claims, it said on ...

In addition to the Carl Vinson, a second U.S. aircraft carrier, the USS Harry S. Truman, was sent to the Middle East, where ...

The move marks the first time in many years that Beijing, which claims the South China Sea almost in ... former National Security Council senior director for East Asia in the Biden administration.

Beijing claims nearly the entire South China Sea, including areas within the Philippines' exclusive economic zone, as well as parts of the East China Sea that are under Japanese control.

He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security ... China's coast guard has unfurled the national flag near a Philippine-controlled island, as territorial tensions continue ...

BEIJING/MANILA, April 30 (Reuters) - China's navy conducted a patrol in the South China Sea on Tuesday ... Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to professionals ...

Philippine Marines, National Police ... Manila’s largest South China Sea possession, Thitu Island, also known by the Philippines as Pagasa, lies only a few nautical miles east of Sandy Cay.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Tuesday that the two countries oppose “attempts to change the status quo in the East China Sea and the South China Sea by force or coercion”.

At just 37 hectares, the Philippines-controlled island of Pagasa – or "hope" - is smaller than Buckingham Palace. There is almost nothing there. The 300 or so inhabitants live in a cluster of small, ...

The Chinese coastguard has seized a tiny sandbank in the South China Sea, state media has reported ... James Hewitt, US National Security Council spokesperson, warned that "actions like these ...

Chinese state media released a photo of coastguard officers on the reef The Chinese coastguard has seized a tiny sandbank in the South China ... the National Task Force West Philippine Sea ...