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

History teaches that once coercion goes unchecked, it tends to escalate. Any disruption to our seaborne supply lines is a ...

Nearly a quarter of global maritime trade goes through the South China Sea. In recent years, it’s become the site of clashes ...

China has published baselines for a contested shoal in the South China Sea it had seized from the Philippines, a move that’s likely to increase tensions over overlapping territorial claims.

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 ...

China released a new map for its southernmost city of Sansha as the country works to consolidate its control over the strategically important waters of the South China Sea. The city comprises two ...

China issued a map in 1947 detailing its claims over a vast majority of the area with the so-called nine-dash line and calls it the South Sea, while the Philippines calls its own claimed parts the ...

And in 2018, Vietnam cut a scene from the romantic comedy "Crazy Rich Asians" that featured a designer bag with a map of the ...

Newsweek's weekly update maps aircraft carrier movements in the ... USS Carl Vinson: South China Sea The Carl Vinson conducted flight operations while underway in the South China Sea on Friday ...