South China Sea

In Malaysia, the last stop on his five-nation tour of Southeast Asia, Wang Yi said that "no one can separate" China and the nations of Southeast Asia.

Enrique Manalo described the 2016 award as the precondition of "stability, peace, and progress" in the disputed waterway.

In 2018, Manila and Beijing began talks on the joint exploration of offshore oil and gas resources in disputed areas of the South China Sea.

"The United States has had national interests at stake in the South China Sea for as long as the disputes have existed."

Heated maritime and territorial disputes conceal the severe damage being done beneath the waves.

For African countries, tension and instability in East Asia might seem far away, but its potential to adversely affect African development ambitions is real.

Two Philippine ships headed for Second Thomas Shoal with food supplies for the Filipino forces there were blasted with water by Chinese coast guard vessels.

A dangerous incident has repercussions in Asian waters.

There’s no love lost between Philippine communists and the Chinese Communist Party.

China’s actions in the South China Sea are no longer just a regional issue.

In Asia’s maritime heartland, all the ingredients of a global cataclysm are conspiring against the post-Cold War period of peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific.