Category: South China Sea

The Philippines launched on Wednesday two days of joint sea and air exercises with the United States, Canada and Australia, a joint statement said, as Beijing presses its territorial claim over the South China Sea. The manoeuvres will be held "within ...

By Matthew Walsh with Cecil Morella in Manila China on Wednesday carried out a combat patrol to test "strike capabilities" near Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, a flashpoint area also claimed by the Philippines.

After several weeks of relative calm between China and the Philippines over territorial disputes in the South China Sea, tensions between the two sides flared anew over the weekend near Sabina Shoal — a remote reef located 139km from the Philippines province of Palawan.

The Philippines and Germany have agreed to deepen military cooperation, their defense ministers said on Sunday, as Manila pushes back after a series of confrontations with China. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius and his Philippine counterpart Gilberto Teodoro met in Manila ...

A Vietnamese coast guard vessel is en route to the Philippines for joint training exercises, Hanoi said, the first such exchange between the countries in dispute with Beijing over the South China Sea. Beijing claims almost the entire South China Sea, ...

The Philippine and Japanese navies held their first joint exercise on Friday in the South China Sea as the two U.S. allies boost security ties in the face of China's growing pressure. The drills followed the signing less than a month ...

Foreign Ministers from the U.S.-centric Quad defense alliance criticized what they called “coercive and intimidating maneuvers” in the South China Sea. This comes after talks between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny ...

By Léon Bruneau The foreign ministers of the United States, Japan, Australia and India on Monday expressed "serious concern" over the situation in the South China Sea in a veiled rebuke to Beijing. U.S. Secretary ...

This weekend dashed any hopes that tensions between China and the Philippines over territorial disputes in the South China Sea would ease following an agreement reached last week. The deal, which concerned resupply missions to the ageing World War II-era warship ...

Under the close watch of at least nine China Coast Guard and PLA Navy warships, the Philippines said it carried out a resupply and rotation mission to troops on a South China Sea reef on Saturday without any “untoward incidents” more than a month after a violent ...

By Simon Sturdee The United States and Japan issued scathing verbal attacks on China and Russia on Sunday after high-level discussions on enhancing already close defense collaboration between Tokyo and Washington in an increasingly unstable region.

By Léon Bruneau and Stuart Graham The top diplomats of China and the US sparred on Saturday over the South China Sea, where Beijing is locked in a territorial dispute with US treaty ally the Philippines.