The U.S. Seventh Fleet confirmed to Newsweek the ocean surveillance ship USNS "Victorious" was deployed in the South China ...

The U.S. could be drawn into a conflict between China and the Philippines that's been roiling the South China Sea.

Tensions are running high between Beijing and Manila over China's expanding activities within the Philippines' exclusive economic zone, hundreds of miles from Chinese shores. Beijing claims over 80 ...

Jamie Burton is a Newsweek Senior TV and Film Reporter (Interviews) based in London, U.K. His focus is reporting on the latest in the world of ... Line in the South China Sea More Eric Charbonneau ...

China claims almost the entire South China Sea, including parts claimed by Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and ...

HONG KONG — From the peaks of the Himalayan mountains to the shoals of the South China Sea, China lays claim to a vast territory — and a new national map produced by Beijing is the latest ...

Multiple countries have claims to the South China Sea, which borders the Philippines ... the water and disputed islands following World War II. A map of China’s shifting definition of the ...

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.

China released a new map for its southernmost city of Sansha as the country works to consolidate its control over the strategically important waters of the South China Sea. The city comprises two ...

A major redrawing of the map of the South China Sea began when ... including container flows on some of the world’s busiest sea-lanes, has been unaffected. China’s coastguard has notionally ...

The U-shaped "nine-dash line" is used on Chinese maps to illustrate its claims over vast areas of the South China Sea, including swathes of what Vietnam considers its continental shelf ...