In June, the former U.S. Coast Guard ship USCGC Mellon —one of 12 Hamilton -class high-endurance cutters—arrived in Vietnam ...

Japan is set to export six Abukuma-class destroyer escorts to the Philippines in a landmark move aimed at countering China’s ...

The arrests suggest a new front in China’s long campaign to press the Philippines, America’s oldest military ally in ...

China’s, meanwhile, is concentrated around the South China Sea where, since 2013, Chinese vessels have pumped sand onto reefs, turning them into islands and then weaponizing them.

A state-backed think tank has put forward China’s “four core principles” as a constructive framework for addressing disputes in the South China Sea, while blaming regional tensions on ...

With nine new military access points under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), the U.S. is expanding its ...

The new map features a 10-dash line that includes the eastern parts of the disputed South China Sea that fall within the Philippines’ 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ), which the ...

China’s claim to nearly the entire South China Sea overlaps with the EEZs of several Southeast Asian nations. A 2016 ruling by an international tribunal rejected these expansive claims, but ...

As I explore in my recent book “Hedging and Conflict in the South China Sea,” part of the problem Southeast Asian nations face is that they have failed to forge a unified position. ASEAN, the regional ...

Chinese Communist Party expert Gordon Chang said war in Asia could happen anywhere, not just in Taiwan. "I think there's a ...

Hundreds of searchers were combing wide swaths of central Texas yesterday after severe rainfall caused flash flooding on the ...

Stations,” and then came the sea drones retrieved from the waters off Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao in 2022 and 2024. In 2018 ...