Earlier this month, China declared new "baselines" around Scarborough Reef, a large coral atoll topped by a handful of rocks barely above sea level in the South China Sea. By doing so, China ...

Trump’s transactional diplomacy risks complicating the hedging of stakeholders from Philippines to Vietnam, and adding ...

The Philippine Navy said its warships held exercises Friday in the South China Sea as part of its efforts to assert its sovereign rights over waters also claimed by Beijing.

A Chinese Coast Guard ship, known as the "monster ship" due to its size, which is one of the two largest law-enforcement vessels in the world, was deployed to a disputed South China Sea reef in ...