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 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 ...

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 ...

China has increasingly become assertive in pressing its claim to virtually the entire South China Sea, which has led ... which are regarded as a delicate fault line in the longstanding U.S ...

Control over the South China Sea has once again been thrown into question ... which are regarded as a flashpoint in Asia and a delicate fault line in the longstanding US-China rivalry in the ...

China has asserted sovereignty over an uninhabited reef in the South China Sea by planting a flag, according to state media, setting the stage for an escalation of tensions with the Philippines ...

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 ...