China and several of its neighbors have claimed parts of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. A map from a recent Pentagon report shows how those countries are building outposts in the ...

Thitu Island is home to the Philippines' largest military outpost in the South China Sea's Spratly Islands archipelago.

Tensions continue in the South China Sea, most recently between China and the Philippines. China has been extending its reach in the South China Sea by building artificial islands atop reefs.

Vietnam said China’s official map released this week violates its sovereignty over the Spratly and Paracel ... all China’s claims in the South China Sea based on the dotted line,” Hang ...

at the Second Thomas Shoal in the Spratly Islands. In recent years, satellite imagery has shown China’s increased efforts to reclaim land in the South China Sea by physically increasing the ...

A new China map shows the South China Sea with a dashed line around claimed ... angering the Philippines; and all of the Spratly Islands, angering Vietnam, the Philippines, and Malaysia.

China claims most of the South China Sea in defiance of a 2016 arbitral ... forces have recently advanced claims in the contested Spratly Islands, which are claimed by the Philippines, a U.S ...

Ten dashes across China's latest map has caused several surrounding ... deep into the South China Sea, enclosing the Spratly Islands. North of Borneo, near the coasts of Malaysia and Brunei ...

A major redrawing of the map of the South China Sea began when Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. In the subsequent three years China built seven new bases in the Spratly Islands, three of them ...

Chinese activities in the South China Sea have remained a focal point ... the East Asian power constructed seven artificial islands in the Spratly archipelago, a cluster claimed by five other ...

Countries surrounding the South China Sea have built more than 90 military ... Vietnam has built on 21 features in the ...

China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei all have competing claims over territory in the South China Sea Countries ... proximity to the Spratly Islands as the main basis ...