Deployments of ships and aircraft to challenge China’s illegal claims in the South China Sea are increasing. European ships ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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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Two weeks ago China rammed a Philippine coastguard cutter on another shoal, tearing a gap in its hull. Such confrontations ...

It said that together with the ubiquitous presence of its maritime militia, China’s constant coast guard patrols reveal its determination to assert control over the vast area within its nine, now ...