The contested South China Sea boasts rich oil and gas reserves and could play a key role in a conflict over Taiwan.

Vast fields of new silos for intercontinental ballistic missiles have also been built in the western end of China over the ...

Anthony Albanese has remained tight-lipped about whether a “dangerous and unprofessional” flare drop, involving a Chinese ...

Participating naval vessels included the U.S. destroyer USS Fitzgerald, the Australian frigate HMAS Ballarat, the New Zealand ...

Days after meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea and announcing a temporary trade truce with Beijing, US President Donald Trump insisted that China would not take military action against ...

China’s military, meanwhile, described the incident as a response to an “intrusion” by the Australian aircraft into its airspace around the Paracel Islands, saying it had deployed naval and air forces ...

But Changxing Island shows it is more realistic to expect another path—namely, that other countries will find it ever harder ...

Over the last decade, China has turned remote reefs into fortified islands to assert control over the South China Sea.

The U.S. has deployed troops and anti-ship missiles into the northern Philippines as part of almost continuous, joint war ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth urges Southeast Asian nations to strengthen their maritime forces to counter China's actions in the South China Sea ...