Category: South China Sea

The energy crisis in Southeast Asia brought on by the war in Iran is giving China a new opening to pressure the Philippines over longstanding territorial disputes in the South China Sea. Over the past week, Chinese naval, coast guard, and ...

Just a day after the Philippines and China resumed high-level talks over the disputed South China Sea, China conducted naval, air, and coast guard patrols around the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea on Sunday, its military and Coast Guard said.

China conducted naval, air, and coast guard patrols around the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea on Sunday, its military and Coast Guard said. The shoal is in the Philippines' exclusive economic zone, but China also claims it as part of its territory.

The Philippines and China have resumed high-level talks this week over the disputed South China Sea, exploring preliminary steps toward oil and gas cooperation while addressing energy and fertilizer supply issues amid the ongoing Middle East conflict, the Philippine foreign ministry said. The 11th round ...

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos is reportedly open to restarting stalled talks with China about a joint oil and gas project in a disputed zone of the South China Sea. He and Chinese President Xi Jinping reportedly discussed resuming the negotiations in ...

Tô Lâm, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, met with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Defence Minister Dong Jun, and Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong in Hanoi on Tuesday. This follows China and Vietnam's first ...

The Philippines said on Monday it rejected Beijing's assertion of sovereignty over the entire South China Sea, disputing a claim by China's embassy that a Filipino diplomat had once conceded the disputed Scarborough Shoal was not part of Philippine territory. ...

By Karen Lema A spokesman for the National Security Council (NSC) of the Philippines on Thursday said some information on the country's resupply missions in the South China Sea was compromised and passed on to Chinese intelligence agents. His ...

In this edition of M&M, I want to analyze the role of Vietnam’s naval bases in checking China’s maritime assertiveness. This is an important factor to consider because Vietnam enjoys some of the world’s best natural deep-water harbors. Two of them, Da Nang and Cam Ranh, directly ...

While the Chinese government has not officially commented on the reported sale of supersonic anti-ship missiles to Iran, one of China's most outspoken media provocateurs appeared on Russian state television on Tuesday to defend the move. Victor Gao, vice president of ...

After two years of negotiations, Iran is close to finalizing a deal with China to buy supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles, according to Reuters. Reuters cited six sources who confirmed that Iran is poised to acquire Chinese-made CM-302 missiles, nicknamed "Carrier-Killers," that are ...

By Karen Lema As the Philippine Coast Guard plane descended toward the country's most strategically important outpost in the disputed South China Sea, passengers' phones lit up with a roaming alert: "Welcome to CHINA." Among those on board were ...