As tensions rise in the South China Sea, China prepares for a legal showdown with the Philippines defying their challenges ...

THE South China Sea (SCS) continues to rank among the world's most contentious geopolitical hot spots, with overlapping territorial claims and deep-rooted strategic rivalries dictating the region's ...

China, with its sweeping“nine-dash line” claim ... Nowhere is this more evident than in the Spratly Islands, where Hanoi has ramped up its military presence in direct defiance of China's ...

Both nations' military upgrades reflect a regional trend, with Malaysia and other Southeast Asian countries also boosting ...

But the dominance might be challenged in the future as Vietnam, another claimant of the Spratly Islands ... as well as within the scope of China's nine-dash line that claims much of the waterway.

The Philippines claims that China’s nine-dash line encroaches on its 200 nautical ... feature in the Spratlys could be legally considered islands because they lack the ability to sustain human ...

One of the biggest lessons that Vietnam has learned about China’s expansionism in the South China Sea is indisputable — the ...

declaring China’s nine, now 10-dash line as baseless and illegal. Vietnam has 21 outposts in the Spratly Islands, however, it has 14 isolated platforms referred to as “economic, scientific ...

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