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The South China Sea arbitration isn't a victory for international law — it's a cautionary tale of how to break it. It spat on ...
A U.S. aircraft carrier is operating near the Philippines, while a Chinese aircraft carrier is visiting Hong Kong.
China has sanctioned a former Filipino lawmaker, Francis Tolentino, who sponsored legislation that marks out the Philippines’ ...
China has sanctioned the former Senate majority leader of the Philippines Francis Tolentino, a key ally of the Southeast ...
The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) comprises India, the United States, Japan and Australia and emerged in the wake of ...
John Rennie Short, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (THE CONVERSATION) The South China Sea has long been a bubbling geopolitical hot spot. Recently, a series of moves by the various nations ...
Satellite images show Hanoi reclaiming land and building military facilities such as airstrips on contested Spratly Island ...
An expert on the contested waterway, Wu Shicun calls for rival claimants to work together to demilitarise - and says Beijing ...
Vietnam had seen no need to do that prior to Chinese reclamation and militarization in the South China Sea,” he said. China claims most of the South China Sea as its own territory.
Manila’s Foreign Ministry said such construction would go against a 2002 Declaration of Conduct on the South China Sea, in which China and South-east Asian countries pledged to avoid actions ...
China claims the majority of the energy-rich South China Sea, through which more than US$3 trillion worth of ship-borne trade passes annually. Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam ...