In early December 2025, China's navy launched its biggest peacetime operation ever. More than 100 ships gathered across key waters in East Asia. This huge move forced Japan and the United States to respond quickly.

THE PHILIPPINE military plans to hold more joint naval drills with its allies in the South China Sea and beyond as it expects heightened Chinese coerciveness in the disputed waters, a navy spokesman said on Tuesday.

Vietnam has revved up South China Sea land reclamation efforts this year, beginning construction on eight previously untouched Spratly Islands features.

IT HAS BEEN a tense final deployment for USS Nimitz, America’s oldest aircraft-carrier and one of the world’s largest. On October 26th one of its helicopters went down in the waters of the South China Sea. Half an hour later, an F-18 fighter jet ...

The United States Navy's 7th Fleet on Friday (Manila time) said three Filipino fishermen were rescued after being found adrift in the South China Sea on New Year's Day.

The USNS Cesar Chavez rescued three Filipino fishermen who survived four days on rationed food and water after heavy seas flooded their engine and left them adrift.

The guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins (DDG-76) slipped quietly into the contested waters near Scarborough Shoal on the morning of Aug.13. As it pressed toward the edge of China’s declared "territorial sea," shadowing vessels from the People’s ...