China and the Philippines have each unfurled their national flags on tiny sandbars in the South China Sea, staking competing sovereignty claims in strategic waters seen as a potential flashpoint ...

Beijing ‘must be prepared to respond’, and it might be headed for confrontation with Vietnam over land reclamation, analyst ...

The Chinese coast guard displays its national flag on disputed Sandy Cay in the South China Sea on April 26, 2025. On Sunday, the Philippines dispatched navy and coast guard personnel to Sandy Cay ...

China and the Philippines Spar Over a Sandbar in the South China Sea The standoff over Sandy Cay, which lies close to military outposts built by both Beijing and Manila, was the latest between the ...

The back and forth over Sandy Cay is the latest flare-up in a long-running dispute over territory in the hotly contested South China Sea, which China claims almost in its entirety.

Tensions surged near Sandy Cay on May 22 as Chinese Coast Guard vessels sideswiped and blasted Philippine research ships with water cannons. China slammed the mission as “illegal,” warning of ...

China has concluded that coral reef degradation in the waters surrounding Sandy Cay – a disputed reef in the South China Sea – was due to a combination of natural phenomena and human ...

China’s coast guard blamed the Philippines for the collision, saying the vessels entered the waters illegally without China’s permission and landed personnel on Sandy Cay, it said, using the ...

Sandy Cay lie near Thitu Island, ... China and the Philippines have each unfurled their national flags on tiny sandbars in the South China Sea, ...