Taipei Office Having spent years observing geopolitics in East Asia and in particular maritime security, over time one truth ...

The militaries of the U.S. and Philippines have carried out joint drills in waters adjacent to the South China Sea claimed by Beijing ...

The organiser of a Blackpink concert in Hanoi has apologised after its website featured a map showing China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea, prompting a backlash on social media.

arming themselves with both local and international political ammunition. This fallout coincided with rising tensions between the Philippines and China in the South China Sea, including a November ...

THE PHILIPPINES on Thursday accused China of endangering Filipino researchers in the South China Sea, saying its coast guard harassed two Philippine civilian vessels at a disputed reef on Wednesday, ...

Each year, $5.3 trillion of trade passes through the South China Sea; U.S. trade accounts for $1.2 trillion. The United States has significant political, security, and economic interests at stake ...

But further south ... lie within its EEZ. China, meanwhile, claims almost the entire sea via its so-called 'nine-dash line', a sweeping boundary drawn on a map in the 1940s that has no legal ...

By Sui-Lee Wee and Aie Balagtas See Sui-Lee Wee reported from Bangkok and Aie Balagtas See from Manila A tiny sandbar in the disputed South China Sea has ... s past as its political identity ...

China and the Philippines have each unfurled their national flags on tiny sandbars in the South China Sea, staking competing sovereignty claims in strategic waters seen as a potential flashpoint ...