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By Jonathan Saul and Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen LONDON/SINGAPORE, Jan 15 (Reuters) – China’s growing military presence in the South China Sea has

By David Tweed (Bloomberg) — China has nearly finished a giant coast guard ship and will probably deploy it armed with machine guns and shells in the

By Yuji Nakamura (Bloomberg) — An armed Chinese government ship was one of three vessels that entered Japan’s territorial waters near disputed islands

TOKYO, Dec 23 (Reuters) – A Chinese coastguard ship equipped with what appeared to be four gun turrets was sighted near disputed islands in the East

BY TIM KELLY (Reuters) In a recent video U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander warns of a possible arms race in the disputed South China Sea which could

By Greg Torode and Manuel Mogato (Reuters) HONG KONG/MANILA – When an international court ruled in late October that it had jurisdiction to hear a case

by Michael Heath (Bloomberg) – Japan’s foreign and defense ministers reiterated concerns about China’s strengthening position in the South

By David Tweed (Bloomberg) – China refuted claims it is militarizing the disputed South China Sea, saying it needs to build facilities on

By Isabel Reynolds (Bloomberg) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told President Barack Obama he’ll consider sending the country’s maritime forces

By Andrea Shalal and David Brunnstrom (Reuters) The U.S. Navy will likely carry out another patrol within 12 nautical miles of artificial

By David Tweed (Bloomberg) — Lighthouses have for centuries guided the world’s seafarers, preventing ships from striking rocks and reefs and helping

By Greg Torode HONG KONG, Oct 30 (Reuters) – When a U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer sailed near one of Beijing’s artificial islands in the

  By David Tweed and Sangwon Yoon (Bloomberg) — The moment the U.S. Navy sailed a warship into waters claimed by China in the South China Sea it

Subi reef, located in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, is shown in these handout satellite images provided by the Center for

  By David Tweed and Tony Capaccio (Bloomberg) — China said it will take “all necessary measures” to defend its territory after the U.S. sailed

  By Andrea Shalal and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy plans to send the destroyer USS Lassen within 12 nautical miles

  By Greg Torode HONG KONG (Reuters) – The next time the United States sends warships by China’s man-made islands in the disputed South China,

  By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) – China was carrying out land reclamation in contested waters of the South China Sea this month,

  BEIJING, July 23 (Reuters) – Japan’s release of pictures of Chinese construction activity in the East China Sea will only provoke

  MANILA, July 20 (Reuters) – An Australian-Filipino consortium led by Otto Energy Ltd is set to drill a deep-water exploratory well in the South