The Latest Breaking News from the South China Sea

China is expanding its military outreach to Southeast Asian countries.

China has responded to complaints from the United States about a Chinese fighter jet's dangerous interception of an American Air Force plane in international airspace over the South China Sea by demanding an end to such flights

Video shows a fighter jet passing in front of the US plane's nose and the cockpit of the RC-135 shaking in the turbulence.

A Chinese fighter jet carried out an "unnecessarily aggressive" maneuver near a U.S. military plane over the South China Sea in international airspace, the United States said on Tuesday.

Malaysia’s maritime agency says a detained Chinese barge likely plundered two World War II British shipwrecks in the South China Sea after discovering another 100 old artillery shells on it

Japan, the United States and the Philippines will hold their first trilateral maritime exercise off the Southeast Asian country's coast, Philippine officials said Monday, a move that will showcase their interoperability near the South China Sea, where Beijing is making assertive territorial claims.

The coast guard of the United States, Japan and the Philippines will hold trilateral maritime exercise in the South China Sea this week, the first such manoeuvres between them as a time of growing concern about China's moves in the region.

Malaysia’s maritime agency says it has detained a Chinese-registered vessel on suspicion of looting two British warship wrecks in the South China Sea

A Chinese research ship and five escort vessels were in Vietnam's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) on Friday close to gas blocks operated by Russian firms in the South China Sea, one day after Hanoi urged the ships to leave.