The South China Sea has a long history of being contested. China and Vietnam engaged in military clashes over the Paracel and Spratly Islands in the South China Sea in 1974 and 1988.

Thitu Island is home to the Philippines' largest military outpost in the South China Sea's Spratly Islands archipelago.

The Chinese military accused an American warship of trespassing in disputed waters in the South China Sea on Tuesday after the U.S. actively challenged China 's contentious claims for the third ...

Vietnam is following in the footsteps of rival Spratly Islands claimant China in building military-purposed infrastructure, according to AMTI.

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 ...

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 ...

Crucially, a map of Kwangtung (Guangdong) Province and a description of the Quiongzhou Prefecture published in 1731 by China do not mention the Paracel and the Spratly islands as parts of China.

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 ...

A Vietnamese flag atop Spratly Island appears blank white on Google Maps, with the all-seeing tech giant saying the flag cannot be seen due to "low-quality image." ...