Maritime disputes across the vast South China Sea have ratcheted up in recent years as an increasingly assertive China militarizes disputed islands and confronts its regional rivals over their ...

China claims sovereignty over nearly all of the South China Sea, via a vague, U-shaped nine-dash-line that overlaps with the EEZs of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam.

A collision between Philippine and Chinese Coast Guard vessels in the South China Sea earlier this month has again raised fears of an escalation in an area China claims almost entirely as its own.

Philippine Coast Guard personnel prepare rubber fenders after Chinese Coast Guard vessels blocked their way to a resupply mission at the Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea, March 5, 2024.

Amid tensions in the South China Sea, NPR sat down with Philippines' Secretary of National Defense Gilberto Teodoro. He has accused China of "gutter talk" and "propaganda" in its territorial claims.

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung held a phone conversation with US President Donald Trump at 10:00 p.m. local ... A ...

China has dismissed an international ruling outlining the Philippines’ rights in the South China Sea, and repeatedly engages in aggressive actions to maintain its dominance in the region.

WION. South China sea tensions: Philippines slams 'dangerous' acts by China. Posted: 10 August 2024 | Last updated: 15 May 2025. The Philippines and China traded accusations on Saturday following ...

Maritime disputes across the vast South China Sea have ratcheted up in recent years as an increasingly assertive China militarizes disputed islands and confronts its regional rivals over their ...

But a tribunal at The Hague, based on a suit brought by the Philippines, ruled in 2016 that China had no “historic title” over the waters of the South China Sea and that its nine-dash line and ...