When China’s leader, Xi Jinping, first announced the free-trade plan for Hainan in 2018, some observers wondered whether he intended to build a new Hong Kong—a free-trade hub that plays a vital role ...

China conducted naval and air patrols around the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea on Saturday, the China Southern Theater Command said.

Growing Japan-Philippines defense ties are linking the East China Sea and South China Sea. Philippine Foreign Secretary ...

Vietnam is accelerating construction on artificial islands in the South China Sea, intensifying a long-running territorial dispute with China. The expansion could shift both military and political ...

Hainan Island is the smallest and southernmost province of China, the only one located fully in the tropics. It provides some of the most fascinating ...

Japan tracked four Chinese warships in a strait near Okinawa, a move that followed U.S.-Philippine military drills near a ...

NOT quite content with its middling performance as a legislative body, the Philippine Senate has apparently decided to take ...

Beijing’s newest class of surface combatant achieved operational capability, Chinese military media reported last week. The ...

The 11-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, whose foreign ministers met in the Philippines this week, faces a complex regional agenda, including: ...

China opens new runway in Micronesia's Yap islands, raising serious U.S. defense concerns in this strategically vital Pacific ...

BRICS is a political and diplomatic coordination forum that supports economic, political, and social cooperation among its ...