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

The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative estimates that Hanoi has created 641 new acres of land in the disputed Spratly ...

China deployed two long-range H-6 bombers around the Scarborough Shoal this week, in Beijing's latest move to assert ...

Deep beneath the South China Sea, researchers in China identified massive deposits of potent methane hydrates, or “flammable ice,” in 2015. Three years later, a Chinese mission successfully ...

Whatever happens in the near term, it is obvious that there is a serious arms race occurring for dominance in the South China Sea. China is ... Army Navy (PLAN) is building a world-class submarine ...

Since early January, China's coast guard has been deploying ships to an area west of Zambales province in a show of force. These waters are closer to a major Philippine island than the reefs that ...

Contingency Planning Memoranda identify plausible scenarios that could have serious consequences for U.S. interests and propose measures to both prevent and mitigate them. The risk of conflict in ...

The Philippine defense chief has called China’s expansive claims in the South China Sea as “the biggest fiction and lie” that ...

With the joint efforts by China and Asean countries, the South China Sea maintained peace and stability last year, and remained the safest and busiest waters for international navigation and ...

The United States increased its activity in the South China Sea last year to “varying levels ... the number of “island-intrusive” freedom of navigation operations (FONOPs) and transits ...