In addition to piling sand onto existing reefs, China has constructed ports, military installations, and airstrips—particularly in the Paracel and Spratly Islands, where it has twenty and seven ...

Most recently, China announced the creation of two new municipal districts that govern the Paracel and Spratly Islands, an attempt to strengthen its claims in the South China Sea by projecting an ...

Claims by six regional nations to islands in the archipelago are complicated by the intervention of the US, which has made two deliberate incursions this year into air space and waters claimed by ...

The BRP Teresa Magbanua (Philippine Coast Guard ship 9701), one of the largest vessels in the U.S. ally's coast guard fleet, was forced to leave the Spratly Islands' Sabina Shoal after Chinese ...

The ongoing geopolitical standoff between the United States and China over the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea is a subject of intense scrutiny and debate. The Strategic Importance of the ...

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The U.S. ally has stationed one of its largest coast guard vessels, the BRP Teresa Magbanua, at Sabina Shoal in the disputed Spratly Islands since April after discovering crushed coral piles ...

Second, the US leadership knows full well that interfering in the Spratly Islands dispute, in which China is the major ...

Indo-Lanka road and rail link: In the wake of Foreign Minister and Cabinet Spokesperson Vijitha Herath’s declaration that decision on... Slowly, slowly…, and then with the snap of resolve that ...

A territorial row between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea has turned increasingly violent, with the two sides trading allegations of intentional boat rammings, and Manila accusing ...

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