South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said he wants to open a “new phase” for relations with China during his first trip to Beijing since he took office in June.

Analysts say both countries increasingly rely on each other for economic and security factors amid geopolitical churn.

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Vietnam has revved up its land reclamation efforts in the South China Sea this year, beginning construction on eight previously untouched features in the Spratly Islands. The hotly contested archipelago has been turned from a ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (UPI) --A wave of maritime conferences across Southeast Asia and China this fall suggests a subtle, but notable, shift in how regional governments are approaching the South China Sea. Long defined by sovereignty disputes, military build ...

IT HAS BEEN a tense final deployment for USS Nimitz, America’s oldest aircraft-carrier and one of the world’s largest. On October 26th one of its helicopters went down in the waters of the South China Sea. Half an hour later, an F-18 fighter jet ...

In this image released by the Philippine Coast Guard, a China Coast Guard vessel fires a water cannon at a boat from the Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in the vicinity of Thitu Island in the South China Sea, Oct. 12, 2025. Credit: X ...

Two Philippine Air Force FA-50 fighter jets fly with two U.S. Air Force B-1 bomber aircraft during a joint patrol and training over the South China Sea on Feb.4.( Philippine Air Force via AP) BANGKOK — The United States and the Philippines have announced ...