China has dramatically ramped up its land reclamation efforts in the South China Sea this year, building artificial islands at an unprecedented pace to bolster its territorial claims in the disputed ...

Reclamation work in the disputed South China Sea, where China has constructed an airstrip and other structures on coral reefs, threatens to “undermine peace, security and stability” in the region, ...

WASHINGTON, May 9 (Reuters) - China embarked upon extensive land reclamation efforts at five outposts in the disputed Spratly Islands last year, adding huge amounts of terrain to bolster its civil and ...

Since October 2025, China has been transforming Antelope Reef, once one of its smallest outposts in the South China Sea's Paracel Islands, into what satellite data now suggests may become its largest ...

Vietnam has sharply accelerated its island-building efforts this year in the contested Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, a US think tank said. The latest expansion covers eight reefs that ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading U.S. senators expressed alarm on Thursday at the scale and speed of China's land reclamation in the South China Sea and said a formal U.S. strategy was needed to slow or ...

China's military activities and deployments in the South China Sea are often framed as part of its growing power projection capability, potentially a launch pad for its ambitions in the wider ...

This CSIS brief offers groundbreaking insight into the value and types of goods flowing through eight different South China ...

The geopolitics of the South China Sea in 2025 were shaped by four trends: continued confrontations between the China Coast Guard (CCG) and claimant states; renewed construction and militarization of ...