Teodoro casts China’s actions in the South China Sea as a sinister plot to “restrict freedom of flights” and navigation. This ...

The incident marks the second confrontation this week between Manila and Beijing over disputed South China Sea islands.

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The Philippine defense chief's warmongering rhetoric shows that he clearly does not know which way the wind is blowing today.

Along with fulminating against the United States, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi reasserted China’s South China Sea claims, ...

Chinese jets clashed with Philippine planes flying over a disputed archipelago in the South China Sea. Footage shows the ...

In the early 2000s, Russia and China had heeded US preferences regarding the Korean Peninsula by engaging in multilateralism with the Six-Party Talks to deal ...

While ethnic Chinese are being scapegoated within South Korea’s political crisis, Beijing is leveraging this opportunity to ...

The Spratly Islands are a vast group of reefs, shoals, atolls and small islets in the South China Sea. Situated around ... the Philippine side has disregarded the facts, repeatedly discrediting ...

The opening meeting of the third session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) is held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, ...

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Intelligence failure to detect live-firing by Chinese warships near Australia, has exposed Defence weaknesses, and that we ...