Vietnam is following in the footsteps of rival Spratly Islands claimant China in building military-purposed infrastructure, ...

Mischief and Subi reefs are among the artificial islands China has used to expand its offensive capabilities in the region.

The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative estimates that Hanoi has created 641 new acres of land in the disputed Spratly ...

Deep beneath the South China Sea, researchers in China identified massive deposits of potent methane hydrates, or “flammable ice,” in 2015. Three years later, a Chinese mission successfully ...

Exclusive-Satellite Images Show Fresh Chinese Bomber Deployment in South China Sea By Greg Torode HONG KONG ... saying only the island's people can decide their future. (Reporting by Greg Torode ...

Contingency Planning Memoranda identify plausible scenarios that could have serious consequences for U.S. interests and propose measures to both prevent and mitigate them. The risk of conflict in ...

The United States increased its activity in the South China Sea last year to “varying levels ... the number of “island-intrusive” freedom of navigation operations (FONOPs) and transits ...