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Summary and Key Points: China's island fortresses in the South China Sea are usually told as a military story — the runways, the missiles, the unsinkable aircraft carriers. But there's a second story ...

China has spent years expanding reefs and small islands in the South China Sea, adding harbors, air facilities and other infrastructure to positions that sit inside one of Asia’s most contested ...

China has reclaimed more than 2,900 acres of land from the South China Sea in less than two years in an intensive island-building campaign in the disputed Spratly Islands, a new Pentagon report says. ...

PUERTO PRINCESA, Philippines (AP) — China is pressing ahead with the construction of artificial islands on at least two reefs that are also claimed by the Philippines in an increasingly tense ...

China employs artificial island construction near Indonesian waters to impose its power through forceful measures instead of working toward development objectives. Beijing uses its military bases ...

China has condemned Vietnam’s efforts to build up artificial islands in the South China Sea—even though it initiated the practice during the 2010s. It is unclear whether Mark Twain, Will Rogers, or ...

A huge screen shows a broadcast of Chinese President Hu Jintao speaking at the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Thursday, Nov. 8, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — China’s rapidly expanding campaign to construct artificial islands, potentially for military use or airstrips, now totals about 2,000 acres and could far outstrip that amount as the ...

Increasing economic ties between the Cook Islands and China represent a pivotal shift in regional geopolitics with implications for Australia and New Zealand’s influence in the South Pacific — a ...