Rising naval tensions in the South China Sea are increasingly posing risks to some of the world’s most vital shipping lanes, ...

The South China Sea is a strategic waterway which nearly $5.3 trillion worth of trade passes through annually, including $1.2 trillion trade between the United States and four of our top ten ...

The location mentioned suggests that the exercises will take place in the South China Sea. The “Blue Strike-2025” joint naval drills would be held from “late March to early April” near ...

The U.S. has long opposed China's expansive territorial claims in the South China Sea, regularly sending Navy patrols through the strategic waterways to demonstrate freedom of navigation there ...

Other countries could openly side with China and rely on its military aid, as has occurred in Thailand, which is a Southeast Asian power albeit not a claimant to the South China Sea.

JS Izumo (DDH-183), destroyer JS Samidare (DD-106) and an Oyashio class submarine. JMSDF Photo. Japanese naval units carried out antisubmarine warfare drills in the South China Sea on Monday while ...

First-timers Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos will be joining Malaysia and Thailand for the drills when China hosts them later this month. Vietnam and Malaysia contest some of China’s claims in the ...

China is ASEAN’s No. 1 trading partner and its third-largest source of foreign investment — a key reason why the bloc has been reluctant to criticize Chinese actions in the South China Sea ...

BEIJING - A meeting of foreign ministers from Asean and China over the South China Sea ended in confusion after Malaysia released and then retracted a joint statement expressing "serious concerns ...

The West Philippine Sea refers only to the waters in the South China Sea that fall within the Philippine EEZ. This maritime area extends up to 200 nautical miles from the country's coast ...