On July 12, nine years ago, the Permanent Court of Arbitration delivered its final ruling on the case filed by the Philippines against China over territorial disputes in the South China Sea. The court ...

Stations,” and then came the sea drones retrieved from the waters off Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao in 2022 and 2024. In 2018 and 2020, the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) reported that ...

The South China Sea has long been a bubbling geopolitical hot spot. Recently, a series of moves by the various nations claiming a stake in the waters has stirred up yet more trouble. Malaysia has of ...

China sends dual message with national flag on disputed South China Sea reef, targeting rivals and citizens China and the Philippines each raised flags on Sandy Cay days apart, asserting rival claims.

China has its "Big Three" Spratly Islands - Mischief Reef, Subi Reef and Fiery Cross - which have been fully militarised with anti-ship and anti-aircraft missile systems, laser and jamming ...

China now has four large outposts with 3,050-metre (10,000-foot) runways in the South China Sea. They are Woody Island in the Paracels and Fiery Cross Reef, Mischief Reef and Subi Reef in the ...

China took control of Fiery Cross Reef in 1988. Even in 2009, it remained a rock. But by 2015, land had been reclaimed and a harbour and runway built.

Since then, Beijing has constructed military bases on Subi Reef, Johnson Reef, Mischief Reef and Fiery Cross Reef, fortifying its claims on the chain, according to the Asia Maritime Transparency ...

Vibrant reefs filled with colorful fish and seaweed just two years ago have been turned into a wasteland of crushed corals in the South China Sea and the Philippines says it has identified a ...

By 2020 China was operating some of its Y-8FQ ASW (Anti-submarine Warfare) aircraft from a 3,100 meter (10,000 foot) airstrip on the Fiery Cross (Yongshu) Reef airbase.