With their oars, the commandos pushed off from the sub’s steel hull, paddled easily and quietly toward the dimly visible white beaches on a 70-minute trip to low-lying Pratas Island (東沙), also known ...

TAIPEI, Nov 4 (Reuters) - A top Taiwan security official told lawmakers on Thursday that China had internally debated whether to attack Taiwan's Pratas Islands but will not do so before 2024 ...

The incident occurred in a marine national park administered by Taiwan in the Pratas Islands, known in both Taiwan and China as the Dongsha Islands. Pratas Island, the largest in the group ...

Taiwan’s staging of a live-fire drill in the Pratas Islands on Sunday has highlighted the chain’s strategic importance and potential to be a flashpoint in the South China Sea, analysts said.

China could take control of the Pratas Islands whenever Chinese President Xi Jinping decides. That would offer numerous benefits to China: (1) It would demonstrate China’s will and capabilities ...

The rest broke off and briefly darted further south toward tiny Pratas Island in the South China Sea before turning back.

reports claimed that China "internally debated" attacking Pratas Islands However, this move could "test the limits of Biden's military commitment to Taiwan" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may have ...

The aircraft flew in an area to the northeast of the Pratas Islands that is part of the Taiwan's air defence identification zone (ADIZ), according to a map the ministry provided. But the planes ...

and to the southwest of Taiwan at the top part of the South China Sea where the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands are located. There were also 14 Chinese navy ships and 12 “official ships ...

Taiwanese coast guard cutter the Taichung sprays Chinese fishing vessel Yue Shen Shan Yu 11366 with a water cannon near Pratas Island in the South China Sea on May 5.

The Liaoning has previously passed through the strait. It appeared to be returning to Qingdao port in eastern China via the Pratas Islands, in the northern part of the South China Sea, for ...