A flurry of Vietnamese island fortifications and intensifying Chinese activity show the rising odds of confrontation in the ...

Taiwan holds drills on Itu Aba island deep in South China Sea First ministerial visit to Itu Aba in seven years Itu Aba also claimed by China, Vietnam and the Philippines China has been building ...

Instead, Antelope Reef, as this cay is known, is beginning to look a lot like China’s large military airbase at Mischief Reef. One of three airbases which China built during a spree of island-building ...

This is Antelope Reef, home to China’s latest artificial island — and one of its largest — in contested waters of the South China Sea. Satellite images show dozens of dredgers, which grind up the ...

Vietnamese fishers in 2010-2011 in Lý Sơn island. Credit: André Menras In early 2010, a few months after he received Vietnamese honorary citizenship, André Menras, a French national, decided to set ...

The geopolitics of the South China Sea in 2025 were shaped by four trends: continued confrontations between the China Coast Guard (CCG) and claimant states; renewed construction and militarization of ...

The geopolitics of the South China Sea in 2025 were shaped by confrontation, militarisation and US–China rivalry. While some progress was made towards reaching an ASEAN–China Code of Conduct (COC) in ...

WASHINGTON, May 8 (Reuters) - Vietnam has expanded its island building in the South China Sea's disputed Spratly archipelago in the past year, adding 534 acres (216.1 hectares) of land, and has also ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jill Goldenziel writes & consults on security, law, & business risk. While the world watches islands in the Persian Gulf, China ...

A Taiwanese minister has made a rare visit to a Taiwan-controlled islet in the South China Sea to observe a coast guard exercise, as tensions flare in the region. Ocean Affairs Minister Kuan Bi-ling ...

A Taiwanese minister made a rare trip this week to a remote island in the South China Sea at a time when tensions in the region remain high. Ocean affairs council minister Kuan Bi-ling travelled to ...