The deployment of the Liaoning comes as two U.S. aircraft carriers— USS Nimitz and USS George Washington —operate ...

China contests the uninhabited Senkaku Islands with Japan and claims waters in the Yellow Sea against South Korea. And in the Taiwan Strait, Taipei-controlled islets off the mainland Chinese coast ...

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 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 ...

China’s territorial claims in Arunachal Pradesh and its maritime claims covering most of the islands of the South China Sea are grounded in its perspective of international law, which is heavily based ...

SINGAPORE: Philippine Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro engaged in a testy back-and-forth with Chinese officials at a ...

And in 2018, Vietnam cut a scene from the romantic comedy "Crazy Rich Asians" that featured a designer bag with a map of the world showing the disputed South China Sea islands under Beijing's control.