Vietnam is following in the footsteps of rival Spratly Islands claimant China in building military-purposed infrastructure, ...

Recently, senior officials from the Philippine defense department and navy have repeatedly denigrated China's South China Sea dotted line ... marked on an official map China published in 1948 ...

It is one of many land ownership disputes between China ... the South China Sea, and U.S. warships and aircraft routinely carry out "freedom of navigation" exercises in the area — often drawing ...

Newsweek's weekly update maps the locations of 11 aircraft carriers in the Indo-Pacific region as of March 28.

In a speech marking the anniversary of the Philippine military’s Western Command on Palawan province, which faces the South China Sea, Teodoro ... dashes on Chinese maps. Teodoro said that ...

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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine defense chief on Monday called China’s expansive claims in the South China Sea “the biggest ... dashes on Chinese maps. Teodoro said that Xi runs ...

Malaysia and Brunei have been involved in the long-simmering territorial standoffs in the South China Sea. Taiwan also lays a claim similar to that of China, which has demarcated the extent of its ...

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U.S. negotiators are meeting separately with Russian and Ukrainian officials in Saudi Arabia to try and broker a deal to end the three-year-long war.

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Digging for minerals in the Pacific’s graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed on Mar 26, 2025.