Vietnam has significantly expanded island-building work in areas it claims in the Spratly Islands chain of the disputed South ...

Vietnam has sharply accelerated its island-building efforts this year in the contested Spratly Islands in the South China Sea ...

THE country has significantly expanded island-building work in areas it claims in the Spratly Islands chain of the disputed South China Sea and will match and likely surpass the scale of such activity ...

Recent revelations from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) highlight a seismic shift in the dynamics ...

This report provides an overview of global issues, including Vietnam's island expansion in the Spratlys, FBI's probe of John ...

The Beijing-based Grandview Institution says Hanoi ramped up island expansion in the South China Sea from 2021 using large dredgers Vietnam has occupied more Chinese islands and reefs, stationed ...

China’s sweeping communications network in the Spratlys will have a decisive role to play in Beijing’s crisis management plans to deal with its increasing tensions with the US in the South ...

Indeed, since 1988, when China and Vietnam clashed near the Spratlys, there have been no serious armed flare-ups. Tension rose in 1995, when China was found to have built on Mischief Reef, claimed ...

The Spratlys dispute is a sensitive topic to me and other Chinese-Filipinos. People would always ask which side I’m on, or which country has sovereignty over these islands.

The new Sansha city embraces the Spratlys, where the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Taiwan also have claims. But these contenders have so far kept quiet.

The country first made its claim to several islands in 1946 at the United Nations, then in 1956, Tomas Cloma formally staked his claim on the group of islands and called them Kalayaan. All the ...