The Philippines is currently in the third phase of its military modernization program, called "Horizons." For this, the ...

The monthlong deployment brings the long-running territorial dispute with China, typically centered on several contested ...

China's November engagement in the Indo-Pacific included ongoing territorial disputes in the South China Sea, uncertain ...

As the Philippines geared up for national elections in May, a picture of a sample ballot labelled "Beijing PE, China" ...

The Philippines and the US also held joint patrols in the disputed South China Sea last year. Territorial disputes in the South China Sea involve conflicting island and maritime claims in the ...

The U.S. and the Philippines have repeatedly condemned China's increasingly assertive actions to press its territorial claims in the South China Sea, where hostilities have flared over the past ...

Manila has allocated nearly $2 billion for the acquisition of a submarine fleet to help defend its dispersed island geography ...

Aside from China and the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam and Taiwan have overlapping territorial claims in the busy sea passage, a key global trade and security route, but hostilities have ...

China and Brunei have pledged to work together on oil and gas exploration in the Sea, though a Chinese analyst noted that ...

U.S. and Philippine fighter aircraft have staged a joint patrol and training over a disputed South China Sea shoal where Chinese fighter jets fired flares last year to drive away a Philippine ...

Aside from China and the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam and Taiwan have overlapping territorial claims in the busy sea passage, a key global trade and security route, but hostilities have ...