Chinese provocations in the Yellow Sea are part of broader campaign by Beijing to assert its influence over the region.

China has sanctioned a former Filipino lawmaker, Francis Tolentino, who sponsored legislation that marks out the Philippines’ ...

Tuesday's maritime confrontation occurred when three Chinese coast guard ships challenged a group of Philippine vessels about ...

International court rejects China’s claims in South China Sea. An international court ruled Tuesday that China has no legal basis for its jurisdictional claims in the disputed South China Sea.

China's been building artificial islands in the South China Sea over the last decade to expand its control in the area. Satellite images show its growth.

Seething international tensions over the South China Sea have struck an unlikely victim in Vietnam: popular children's dolls pulled from shops over a facial mark supposedly resembling Beijing's ...

China, which claims almost all of the South China Sea, says its tactics are needed to defend its sovereignty. Beijing has rejected a ruling by an international tribunal in 2016 that China’s ...

Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines have all attempted to counter Chinese claims to waters within their exclusive economic ...

Hainan, a palm-fringed island known as China’s Hawaii, sits in the warm tropical waters of the South China Sea east of Vietnam. It’s a popular tourist destination with soft-sand beaches ...

China is ASEAN’s No. 1 trading partner and its third-largest source of foreign investment — a key reason why the bloc has been reluctant to criticize Chinese actions in the South China Sea ...

China has published baselines for a contested shoal in the South China Sea it had seized from the Philippines, a move that’s likely to increase tensions over overlapping territorial claims.

Hainan, a palm-fringed island known as China’s Hawaii, sits in the warm tropical waters of the South China Sea east of Vietnam. It’s a popular tourist destination with soft-sand beaches ...