A growing network of military partnerships is reshaping the security dynamics in Asia as countries around the South China Sea and the western Pacific enhance cooperation in response to China's ...

And in 2018, Vietnam cut a scene from the romantic comedy "Crazy Rich Asians" that featured a designer bag with a map of the world showing the disputed South China Sea islands under Beijing's control.

The U.S. Navy has only four active public shipyards. Meanwhile, China has at least 35 sites with known ties to military or national security projects, according to CSIS researchers Matthew Funaiole, ...