Satellite images indicate that China is building an airstrip on Triton Island which is inside the disputed South China Sea territory also c...

The United States regularly carries out what it calls Freedom of Navigation Operations in the South China Sea challenging what it says are ...

"By engaging in innocent passage without giving prior notification to or asking permission from any of the claimants, the United States cha...

China, which has for years been locked in maritime disputes with other coastal states in the South China Sea, has in recent months boosted ...

“Should the exercises spill over to Philippine territory, then China is forewarned that it will be met with the severest response, diplomat...

China scheduled five days of drills from Wednesday near the Paracels according to a June 27 announcement by the Hainan's Maritime Safety Ad...

Last Sunday Vietnam lodged a formal protest following China's announcement the previous day that it is setting up two administrative units ...

Washington, Apr 6 (AFP) The United States on Monday warned China not to take advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to exert itself in the S...

In 1974, China used force to occupy the Paracel Islands which were under Vietnam. In 1988, China again used force to occupy some reefs in t...

Of the 3,488-km-long India-China border from Jammu and Kashmir to Arunachal Pradesh, a 220-km section falls in Sikkim.

The ship began its maiden voyage to the Paracel Islands, known as Xisha in Chinese, in the South China Sea, state-run Xinhua news agency re...

Vietnam has invited India to explore and exploit natural resources within its 200-nauticalmile exclusive economic zone in the South China S...

India too has repeatedly called for freedom of navigation of SCS including recently at the annual Summit with Japan earlier this month in D...

China upholds Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence but China does not comply with these principles and has border disputes with every ne...

Tensions rose in the resource-rich South China Sea last week after China positioned a giant oil rig in an area also claimed by Vietnam.

Beijing is demanding that at least the Tawang Tract of Arunachal Pradesh, if not the whole of the state, be transferred to China

These claims and counter-claims can be looked at along two dimensions. The first is history and second is sovereignty and effective control.