China has frequently criticized the Philippines' joint military exercises with the U.S. and other countries in the region, accusing Manila of inviting outside forces into what it believes to be a ...

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

For the past 10 years, China has been expanding its presence in the South China Sea, taking over submerged coral reefs, ...

In a vast storage room at a nickel plant in Hachinohe, northern Japan, a group of men in suits and hard hats are squatting on ...

China's annual moratorium covers waters claimed by several countries with ongoing territorial disputes with the East Asian ...

THE PHILIPPINES should strike a deal with China to keep the status quo at a contested sandbar in the South China Sea while it continues to challenge ... on the northern side of Thitu Reefs of the ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan and China have accused each other of violating the airspace around the Japanese-controlled East China Sea islands, which Beijing also claims. The latest territorial flap came ...

a group of small sandbanks in the waterway’s Spratly Islands, after a Chinese state media report suggested the area had been seized. The Philippines and China have been engaged in months of ...

HANOI (Reuters) – 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 ...

Truong Sa is the Vietnamese name for the Spratly Islands ... China claims more than 90% of the potentially energy-rich South China Sea via a U-shaped "nine-dash line" on its maps that stretches ...

The satellite images below show ... China has expanded hundreds of miles south by building artificial islands over underwater reefs in the Paracel and Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.