the incorporation of the Yongshu Reef port has significantly improved China’s accessibility for search and rescue operations in the South China Sea. Yongshu, the Chinese name for Fiery Cross ...

Fiery Cross Reef is located more than 1,200km (746 miles) from the coastline of the Chinese mainland. Both Vietnam and the Philippines claim sovereignty over it.

Over the past two years, an increasingly confident and belligerent China has thrust its South China ... down to Mischief Reef and dug in for the Battle of the West Philippine Sea, Gray-Zone ...

Over the past two years, an increasingly confident and belligerent China has thrust its South China Sea aggression into overdrive ... joining its neighbors in a chaotic reef-grab across the larger ...