The Philippines' foreign ministry has summoned China's ambassador after Beijing imposed sanctions on a former Filipino ...

China's aggressiveness in the Indo-Pacific is rooted in long-standing strategic ambitions independent of any U.S. policy, and ...

Washington and Manila support regional and global security by increasing readiness and strengthening deterrence, the U.S.

Chinese foreign minister says ruling was ‘manipulated by external powers’, while embassy in Manila dismisses it as ‘political ...

The U.S. Pacific Fleet commander says China has failed to intimidate rival claimant states into surrendering their sovereign interests in the South China Sea despite its intensifying “bullying tactics ...

The United States has renewed its call for China to comply with the 2016 Permanent Court of Arbitration ruling that invalidated Beijing’s sweeping claims in the South China Sea.

The Philippines is extending a cautious hand to China for cooperation in "non-sensitive areas," even as it vows to uphold the ...

Beijing ‘must be prepared to respond’, and it might be headed for confrontation with Vietnam over land reclamation, analyst ...

The so-called South China Sea arbitration of 2016, initiated unilaterally by the Philippines, has triggered "a myriad of ...

Adm. Stephen Koehler gave assurances of U.S. commitment to help defend freedom of passage and the rule of law in the ...

BEIJING, July 12 (Xinhua) -- China's position on the "2016 Arbitral Award on the South China Sea" is consistent and clear. The "award" is nothing but a piece of waste paper that is illegal, null and ...

MANILA: Despite rising tension in the major regional flashpoint of the South China Sea, the Philippines' top defence official ...