China and Vietnam engaged in military clashes over the Paracel and Spratly Islands in the South China Sea in 1974 and 1988. ... As depicted in various official and unofficial Chinese maps, ...

The U.S. Navy's Japan-based Seventh Fleet said USS Chancellorsville, a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser, "asserted navigational rights and freedoms" near the Spratly Islands, an ...

The Spratly Islands have once again emerged as point of tension between China and the Philippines -- particularly the Second Thomas Shoal, where the Philippines deliberately grounded a warship in the ...

This photo shows Discovery Great Reef, a Vietnam-built artificial feature in the South China Sea's contested Spratly Island archipelago. CSIS AMTI / Maxar This photo shows Discovery Great Reef, a ...

Vietnam said China’s official map released this week violates its sovereignty over the Spratly and Paracel Islands and jurisdiction over its waters, according to a statement posted on the nation ...

The Philippines has released footage showing Chinese maritime forces operating near its largest outpost in the South China Sea's disputed Spratly Islands archipelago. Newsweek has contacted the ...

When users accessed Google Maps satellite images on Tuesday morning, they reported that the rooftop of a building on Spratly Island, part of Vietnam's Spratly Archipelago, appeared white while in ...

China has released an updated map for a southern city, established to reinforce its claims in the South China Sea, showing new labels for Paracel and Spratly districts, which were formally created ...

A comparative study of Chinese and Vietnamese claims on Spratly and Paracel islands. October 28, 2022, 2:04 PM IST SD Pradhan in Chanakya Code, politics, World, TOI ...

A major redrawing of the map of the South China Sea began when Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. In the subsequent three years China built seven new bases in the Spratly Islands, three of them ...