The U.S. Coast Guard previously told Newsweek that its missions in the western Pacific aim to strengthen maritime governance.

China has published baselines for a contested shoal in the South China Sea it had seized from the Philippines, a move that’s likely to increase tensions over overlapping territorial claims.

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan ...

Further south, the ban applies to parts of the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea from May 1 to September 16, while about half the South China Sea is covered by the moratorium from May 1 to August ...

As one of the world's four ancient civilizations, China has over 2,000 years of documented records related to the South China ...

On July 12, nine years ago, the Permanent Court of Arbitration issued its final ruling on the case filed by the Philippines against China regarding maritime disputes in the South China Sea.

China has released an updated map for a southern city, established to reinforce its claims in the South China Sea, showing new labels for Paracel and Spratly districts, which were formally created ...

The new map’s depiction of the South China Sea includes the expansive nine-dash line, with a 10th dash added to the east of the island of Taiwan.

Map of the South China Sea. China is working hard to bring under its control the water, islands, rocks and reefs that sit within its imaginary nine-dash line. But as it does so, ...

China's U-shaped line, based on its old maps, begins off central Vietnam and runs into waters off Indonesia's Natuna islands, more than 1,000 km (620 miles) south of the island of Hainan.