The Chinese coastguard patrolled around a contested South China Sea shoal on Thursday, a day after the country's military ...

China has held sea and air combat drills at disputed Scarborough Shoal, an uninhabited area of reefs and rocks it had seized ...

The Philippines government on Tuesday protested against Chinese escalations over the South China Sea, announcing baselines ...

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Both China and the Philippines claim Scarborough Shoal and other outcroppings in the South China Sea. China seized the shoal, which lies west of the main Philippine island of Luzon, in 2012 and ...

China’s marking of its territorial line around Scarborough Shoal was “lawful and reasonable” and could help it to take “more targeted” countermeasures against rival claimant the ...

China has marked out its territorial claim to the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea after the Philippines passed legislation outlining its rival claim. On Sunday Beijing published ...

China's marking of its territorial line around Scarborough Shoal was "lawful and reasonable" and could help it to take "more targeted" countermeasures against rival claimant the Philippines ...

China's marking of its territorial line around Scarborough Shoal was "lawful and reasonable" and could help it to take "more targeted" countermeasures against rival claimant the Philippines, Chinese ...