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Beijing appears to be carefully weighing plans to tow a Philippine vessel it says is "illegally" deployed at a disputed atoll ...

Maritime and aerial spats in the South China Sea between China and the Philippines, Washington’s oldest treaty ally in the ...

CANBERRA: China and the Philippines reached a deal in July to enable the continuation of Philippine resupply missions at the disputed Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea. The confrontation ...

China has ramped up confrontations with the Philippines in the South China Sea. The US has largely shied away from getting involved, experts told BI.

MANILA (Reuters) -Relations between Manila and Beijing have soured under Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, with ...

Sabina Shoal, known to the Philippines as Escoda and by China as Xianbin Jiao, is the latest flashpoint in the South China Sea between Manila and Beijing. Located 75 nautical miles from the Philippine ...

Maritime analysts say clashes between the Chinese and Philippine coastguards near a South China Sea shoal could become more frequent and intense as the two countries vie for control of the atoll.

he said the Philippine ship that was turned away from Sabina Shoal entered waters near the disputed Second Thomas Shoal, ignoring the Chinese coast guard’s warnings. “The Chinese coast guard ...

Notably, the Chinese name for Sabina Shoal is Xianbin Reef.In another statement, gan said the Philippine ship entered waters near the disputed Second Thomas Shoal was turned away from Sabina Shoal.

What China is concerned about, security analysts say, is a potential repeat of what happened in 1999, when the Philippines ran aground a World War II-era ship on the Second Thomas Shoal to stake ...

China claims almost all of the South China Sea, including the Second Thomas Shoal. Several Southeast Asian states have made conflicting and sometimes overlapping claims in the South China Sea.