Over the last decade, China has turned remote reefs into fortified islands to assert control over the South China Sea. Despite protests from neighbors and rulings against its territorial claims, it ...

Maritime conferences across Southeast Asia and China this fall suggests a subtle shift in how regional governments approach ...

(CNN) — Vietnam is on a South China Sea island-building binge that will likely see it soon surpass the area China has reclaimed in the strategic and contested Spratly Islands, according to a new ...

China condemned Vietnam over a report it had sped up island-building in an area of the disputed South China Sea that Beijing claims as its own. “China firmly opposes the relevant country’s ...

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 ...

A Newsweek time-lapse of satellite imagery shows the artificial island Vietnam has built up around Barque Canada Reef over the past three years, part of a broader and accelerating land reclamation ...

China's fortified outpost on Subi Reef, one of its largest man-made islands in the South China Sea, is revealed in sharp detail in a new satellite image that shows expanded infrastructure on the ...

The Philippine Coast Guard conducts Visit, Board, Search and Seizure (VBSS) operations in the vicinity waters of Balabac, Palawan, Oct. 18, 2025. Philippine Coast Guard photo Philippine forces trained ...

China is constructing what researchers say will be the world’s first mobile, floating artificial island built to survive a ...