China had protested what it called "close-in reconnaissance" of Chinese territory by the U.S. military in the past.

The U.S. has the world's largest carrier fleet with 11 in service, while China ranks second with three and Japan has two ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio criticized Beijing’s “dangerous and destabilizing” actions in the South China Sea in his early days in office, as he discussed the contested waterway with ...

The Chinese military has carried out two-day joint combat readiness patrols in the contested South China Sea amid ongoing tensions with the Philippines over the strategically important waters.

The South China Sea has long been a stage for US-China rivalry, its critical shipping lanes, rich resources and competing territorial claims making it a geopolitical flashpoint. Last year ...

he Philippines and China agreed to seek common ground and find ways to cooperate despite their disagreements in the South China Sea, their foreign ... based on its historic maps, have no basis ...

Beijing claims sovereignty over most of the South China Sea, which it asserts through a fleet of coast guard and fishing militia that some neighbours accuse of aggression and of disrupting fishing ...

ASEAN and China Must Start Tackling Thorny Issues of South China Sea Code, Philippines Says By Danial Azhar LANGKAWI, Malaysia (Reuters) - The regional bloc ASEAN and China should make headway on ...

MANILA, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The Philippines and the United States carried out joint maritime exercises for a fifth time in the South China Sea, Manila's armed forces said on Sunday, in a move that ...

LANGKAWI, Malaysia (Reuters): The regional bloc Asean and China should make headway on a protracted code of conduct for the South China Sea by tackling thorny "milestone issues", including its ...