The Latest Breaking News from the South China Sea

Warning in talks between Chinese and US military officials comes days before self-ruled island holds elections.

Following the second Washington-Manila joint maritime patrol, Beijing called on the U.S. and Philippines to halt what it says were "irresponsible moves" in the disputed South China Sea.

Southeast Asian and Japanese leaders will agree to boost "maritime security cooperation", according to a draft statement seen by AFP from a summit that kicked off Saturday against the backdrop of growing tensions in the South China Sea.

China's President Xi Jinping arrived in Vietnam Tuesday for his first visit in six years, as he seeks to counter the United States' growing influence with the communist nation.

Forty fishing boats loaded with donations, Father Christmas figurines and nativity had set sail in disputed South China Sea

The Philippines and its treaty ally, the United States, have separately condemned a high-seas assault by the Chinese coast guard and suspected militia ships that repeatedly blasted water cannons to block three Philippine fisheries vessels from a disputed shoal in the South China Sea

China says that the United States has undermined ‘regional peace and stability’.

The Chinese military said that an American naval ship had “illegally intruded” on Monday into waters near the Second Thomas Shoal, the site of a hot territorial dispute between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea

France and the Philippines are considering a defense pact that would allow them to send military forces to each other’s territory for joint exercises