The risk of conflict in the South ... China's EEZ that provokes an armed Chinese response. The United States holds that nothing in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS ...

West Philippine Sea and South China Sea are not the same. West Philippine Sea refers to waters inside the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) which ... the geographic and substantive limits of ...

China and the Philippines have traded barbs for months over manoeuvres at Second Thomas Shoal, an atoll within Manila's 200-nautical-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the South China Sea.

would acknowledge that their presence in the Philippines’ EEZ is both barbaric and illegitimate,” it added. A United Nations-backed court in the Hague voided China’s expansive claim in the South China ...

including the 1982 UNCLOS.” Tensions have prevailed over what countries, including India and the US, view as increasingly aggressive Chinese assertions in the disputed South China Sea. Beijing has ...

Ferdinand Marcos Jr. offered to remove a U.S. missile system from the Philippines if China halts what he called 'aggressive ...

Four major developments shaped the security environment in the South China Sea in 2024: (1) increased Chinese coercion ...

China's coast guard continues its weeklong presence near the Philippines' Zambales Province in what one analyst calls "a new ...

including the 1982 UNCLOS," the statement noted. The ASEAN countries too have been insisting on a binding code of conduct (COC) on the South China Sea largely in view of China's consistent ...

Chinese Coast Guard ships and a Chinese navy helicopter harassed a group of Philippine fisheries vessels conducting a scientific survey in a hotly disputed area of the South China Sea, forcing ...

MANILA, Jan 25 (Reuters) - The Philippines said on Saturday it has suspended a scientific survey in the South China Sea after two of ... based on its historic maps, have no basis under ...