BEIJING: At the heart of the South China Sea dispute is the “nine-dash line”, Beijing’s claim that encircles as much as 90% of the ­contested waters. The line runs as far as 2,000km from ...

China's Defense Ministry has addressed Monday's standoff with a Philippine warship near the South China Sea's disputed ...

The long-simmering territorial disputes are an Asian flashpoint and are a delicate fault line in the U.S.-China ... come under attack in the South China Sea.

Japan is also locked in a maritime dispute with China over the Senkaku Islands, an uninhabited island group in the East China Sea administered ... crossed the median line separating the two ...

Chinese state media released a photo of coastguard officers on the reef The Chinese coastguard has seized a tiny sandbank in the South China Sea ... so-called "nine-dash line".

The Taiwan Strait continues to serve as a fault line ... On Wednesday, China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) conducted surprise live-fire drills in the East China Sea as part of a broader ...

Japan has lodged a strong protest with China after detecting work on a new structure near the median line between the countries in the East China Sea. Japan's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that ...

Beijing claims the vast majority of the sea as its territorial waters, shown on Chinese maps via a "nine-dash line". This not internationally recognised, but China has undertaken island-building ...