In 2023, the Philippine coast guard accused its Chinese counterpart of deploying a high-powered laser against one of its ...

China has published baselines for a contested shoal in the South China Sea it had seized from the Philippines, a move that’s likely to increase tensions over overlapping territorial claims.

China has upset many countries in the Asia-Pacific region with its release of a new official map that lays claim to most of the South China Sea, as well as to contested parts of India and Russia ...

Tensions between China and Vietnam over the South China Sea have upset the political dynamic in Barbie Land. Vietnamese officials are banning the release of “Barbie,” the big-budget movie ...

But just northeast of Taiwan in the East China Sea, barely visible on China's new map, lies the disputed Senkaku Island group, which China calls Diaoyu and Taiwan claims as Diaoyutai.

Beijing claims nearly all such features in the South China Sea, frequently appealing to early 20th-century maps and historical records.

A new map published by China that lays claim to almost all of the South China Sea has been rejected by the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan and India.

China's neighbours have "resolutely rejected" the map in what is the latest dispute in a long-running conflict over the South China Sea.

A major redrawing of the map of the South China Sea began when Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. In the subsequent three years China built seven new bases in the Spratly Islands, three of them ...