The ship changed course five months later, moving near a concentration of Vietnamese-occupied features. It drew global attention when the Philippines said it fired a military-grade laser at a resupply ...

Chinese outposts in the South China Sea could be sacrificial lambs—ultimately lost, but formidable enough to bog down foreign forces as Beijing executes a swift military takeover of Taiwan, a ...

Each year, trillions of dollars of goods flow through the South China Sea, making it the world’s most consequential maritime corridor. The region is also a hotbed of geopolitical tensions that ...