The long-standing disputes in the South China Sea over the ownership of its many features, reefs, atolls, and rocks over the last few years have seen tensions rise between China, littoral states as well as external powers such as the ...

China’s ambition to “monopolize control” of the South China Sea is not only having command over the waters adjacent to Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia… in the South China Sea but also controlling waters thousands of kilometers away from China such ...

(VOVworld) – On July 12, the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in the Hague, the Netherlands, issued a ruling in the case brought by the Philippines against China’s nine-dash line claim in the East Sea. The Permanent Court of Arbitration ...