China is expanding its military reach and presence within the three Pacific island chains with the world's largest navy.

U.S. forces have been firmly ensconced along Asia’s first island chain for nearly eight decades now, placing a potential antagonist athwart China’s access to the Western Pacific. Policies and ...

In Brandon Weichert’s recent article in this publication, he argues that the United States has potentially “already lost the First Island Chain” due to China’s growing anti-access/area ...

An updated plan recently released by the Japanese government details how and where it will move 120,000 people from the ...

Huang said this move raises the question of whether China has solidified its presence in the southern first island chain, enabling it to expand its reach toward the second and third island chains.

1 PLAN or CCG officers are undoubtedly sincere in their desire to keep the Americans out of the first island chain. But that is not the primary reason China has advanced its maritime claims. If it was ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and ... part of the first island chain, a U.S. defense ...

WASHINGTON -- On his first trip to the Indo-Pacific as U.S ... bolstering the "second island chain." ...