China's efforts to put more pressure on the Philippines over a disputed atoll in the Sea could prove an early test for ...

This 2024, the world has been a witness to numerous tensions between claimant-countries, shifting alliances, and calls for a ...

Maritime law expert Jay Batongbacal said China has been more aggressive and oppressive in 2024 as he recalled the June 17 incident in Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal where a Filipino soldier lost his ...

China and Vietnam convened their first-ever “3+3 strategic dialogue“-a mechanism unprecedented in both nations' diplomacy. </ ...

India and the Philippines may be thousands of kilometres apart, but their shared maritime concerns ... Philippine waters and denying access to Filipinos. While the Second Thomas or Ayungin Shoal— a ...

He urged Manila to “return to the right track of properly settling maritime disputes through ... stationed on a grounded warship at the Second Thomas Shoal, where Manila and Beijing have had ...

These are not territorial so much as maritime claims to exclusive economic ... a Filipino ship grounded on the Second Thomas Shoal, in the Spratly Islands. As Yu notes, China’s interest in ...

from resupplying its forces on the disputed Second Thomas Shoal. Next week, Biden will host Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House ...

At the same time, maritime tensions flared between China and two other key U.S. partners in the region, Japan and the Philippines. At home, the world's No. 2 economy maintained a growth target of ...

Odisha plans to expand maritime infrastructure by constructing two new seaports in Balasore and Ganjam districts. In collaboration with PSA Singapore, the state aims to enhance port cargo capacity ...