The U.S. and Philippines flew a joint patrol over the contested Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea guarded by Beijing's ...

The Chinese military carried out combat readiness patrols in waters and airspace surrounding a hotly disputed Sea shoal on ...

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

The Philippines occupies Second Thomas Shoal but China also claims it, and increasingly hostile clashes at sea have sparked fears of larger conflicts that could involve the United States.

China has repeatedly demanded that the Philippines remove the missile ... reached a deal with China to end confrontations at Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea. July 21, 2024 “Let ...

A week later, China asserted that it had granted the Philippines “permission” to resupply the BRP Sierra Madre warship in the Second Thomas Shoal of the Spratly Islands. The grounded vessel ...

The Philippines, China’s twentieth-largest trading partner ... Spratly Islands, Scarborough Shoal, and Second Thomas Shoal. The Tribunal found that China “caused severe harm to the coral reef ...

The Philippines has accused China of intimidating Filipino fishermen near Scarborough ... its rotation and resupply mission on Jan. 24 for BRP Sierra Madre at Second Thomas Shoal. “Depending on the ...

The Philippine President calls China out for reacting to the continued ... the worst among them at one point was Ayungin or Second Thomas Shoal, where the rusting BRP Sierra Madre serves as ...