The long-standing dispute between Vietnam and China over the South China Sea is intensifying. As both nations increase ...

New satellite imagery has captured the USS Nimitz strike carrier group operating in the South China Sea amid rising tensions ...

American and Philippine defense secretaries unveiled a task force designed to deter Chinese coercion in the South China Sea ...

FILE - A Chinese military helicopter flies close to a Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic (BFAR) aircraft above Scarborough shoal on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Joeal Calupitan, File) ...

MANILA – The Philippine defense chief condemned China’s deployment of a swarm of armed coast guard forces, backed by a helicopter and a drone, closer to the Philippines’ military outpost in a fiercely ...

China will establish a nature reserve at a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, a step that will likely inflame tensions with Manila in the resource-rich waterway. China’s cabinet, the State Council ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday urged Southeast Asian nations to stand firm and strengthen their maritime ...

China condemned Vietnam over a report it had sped up island-building in an area of the disputed South China Sea that Beijing claims as its own. “China firmly opposes the relevant country’s ...

BEIJING (AP) — China's coast guard accused a Philippine ship of deliberately ramming one of its vessels on Tuesday near the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea. The Philippines denied it ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Australia’s defense minister and his Philippine counterpart meet in Manila on Friday for talks spotlighting their concern over Beijing’s actions in the South China Sea, ...

China's coast guard accused a Philippine ship of deliberately ramming one of its vessels on Tuesday near the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea. The Philippines denied it, saying ...

China and Vietnam continued a dispute over a Chinese oil rig in the South China Sea on Thursday, with the former acknowledging for the first time its use of water cannons as a method of deterring ...