The prevailing basis for China’s historic claims to the SCS （South China Sea） is the U-shaped line (also called nine-dotted line, or nine-dash line) officially drawn on the Chinese map ... Islands, ...

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

The United Kingdom is one of several countries pushing back Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea.

A California-based Coast Guard cutter has completed a three-day port call on Palawan, the Philippines, not far from the scene ...

China asserts sovereignty over most of the South China Sea despite a 2016 ruling by an international arbitral tribunal ...

The risk of conflict in the South China Sea is significant ... if China attacked Filipino forces in the disputed Spratly Islands. With improving political and military ties between Manila and ...

USS Blue Ridge, a U.S. Navy command and control ship, has visited four countries in the South Pacific since mid- April.

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, ...

China's Defense Ministry on Thursday urged the Philippines to stop "risky infringements and provocations" near Huangyan Island in the South China Sea, following recent maritime tensions.

A new map of the South Orkney Islands has been released by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) – the first UK published, topographic map of the region in almost 40 years. Created by the Mapping and ...

According to a news release by Singapore's Defense Ministry, the sea phase is to be conducted in the southern reaches of the South China Sea within ... on these subjects, showing that the exercise ...

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 ...