CNOOC Limited has made a significant oil and gas discovery in the South China Sea’s Beibu Gulf, marking China’s first breakthrough in exploring metamorphic buried hills offshore.

This likely reflects divergent priorities—in Southeast Asia, China’s economic dominance is already a fact of life and, unlike China’s competitiveness in relation to the West, unlikely to be offset by ...

Recent drills near Japan reflect China’s ambitions to extend its navy’s reach and exert greater influence, in the Pacific and ...

China is pulling ahead of the rest of the world in sinking data centers that power AI into the ocean as an alternate way to ...

A United States special mission vessel—designed to monitor missile launches—was spotted underway off China's coast in the Yellow Sea last month, according to ship-tracking data.

The new map features a 10-dash line that includes the eastern parts of the disputed South China Sea that fall within the Philippines’ 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ), which the ...

In response to a media inquiry that Google Maps now shows the label "West Philippine Sea," whereas it previously displayed "South China Sea," with some reports claiming that this change helps ...

Shandong aircraft carrier spotted northwest of the Spratly Islands on September 11 while USS Carl Vinson’s in the southwestern part of South China Sea.

Gulf of America to South China Sea – how maps name disputed territories Many locations have had multiple names at different times due to historical reasons or territorial disputes.

China claims almost all the South China Sea through which $3 trillion in commerce moves annually - overlapping sovereignty claims by the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam.

The surface water and ocean topography (SWOT) wide-swath altimetry satellite was launched in December 2022. The performance of novel wide-swath altimetry in sea ...